He, like many others, was totally unable to remember which key was which or where he last put them, which is why he had a spare set made up of all of them and hung with names and numbers on their respective hooks. So he was surprised to see his yacht keys were missing. He tried to recall if he had forgotten to replace them. Then he remembered that he didn’t bring them back from his last trip, but left them with the marina office. It was safer. But that only accounted for one set. Where was the spare set? It wasn’t here, that was for sure. It wasn’t so much he wanted to go sailing but, given the hostility of Strindberg at the Fortress and the threats to take back everything he owned, he wanted to safeguard certain possessions he was particularly fond of. And all this because of Genie Magee. He felt hatred rising for the child and tried to control it. Her mother had no idea where she might be or where she might go. But she had to be found, dead or alive. Everything he had ever worked for depended upon it.
