Chris van Allsburg by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780547548104
Amazon: 0547548109
Barnesnoble: 0547548109
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011-10-25T05:00:00+00:00

In the morning, if all went well, he would try to return to the shore from which he started.

In the waning light he could still see the shadow of the dolphin as it swam ahead.

Would it be there in the morning to help him back?

Carol put the book down and closed her eyes. Then she opened them again and began to read slowly. The story went on about how the boy awoke in the morning, cold and alone and hungry, and how he had seen not one but two dolphins in the bay, but neither was very close to where he stood on the island's edge. Carol wanted Esteban to be safe, and to make it back to the shore. She wanted the dolphins to help him, but she wasn't at all sure they would.

Mysteries were about finding out how they ended, not new and more difficult mysteries that kept going on and on. She looked at the book and then threw it down on her bed, telling herself that she would never pick it up again. Now she knew why Mr. Linden read the same book every day. He had warned her about the book. Now it was too late.

She lay quietly in the darkness of her room. Now and again her hand would reach out from under the covers toward the light by the side of her bed.

"Don't open the book again," she pleaded with herself. "Please."

From the far side of the bay, the town had grown dark. Occasionally a truck made its way along the winding road or the reflection from the lighthouse through the fog could be seen. Other than that, all was dark, the occasional flicker of a small bedroom light hardly noticeable.

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