The Lost Colony by Irina Shapiro

Author:Irina Shapiro [Shapiro, Irina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Merlin Press LLC
Published: 2023-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 44

Declan

Tim’s holler couldn’t have come at a worse time, but Tim wasn’t the kind of guy to raise the alarm for nothing, so I reluctantly let go of Natalie and pulled her along toward the gates, unwilling to leave her alone on the beach. Tim was standing between the gateposts, hands on hips, looking absolutely murderous.

“What happened?” I asked as soon as we were within earshot.

Tim held something up between two fingers, and I peered at the tiny object. It was a camera. We had been searching for the cameras for the past few weeks, going over every inch of the settlement when we had time off from hunting and the never-ending chores, but had found nothing. If there were no cameras inside the houses, then where were they? In the trees? Affixed to the roof? If the cameras were that high up, the only thing they’d get a clear shot of was the tops of our heads, so it didn’t really make sense from a practical point of view. They had to be low enough to capture our facial expressions and words, but the task of locating them had proved about as easy as looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack, and without any modern tools, like a tall ladder, we were at a disadvantage. We could hardly climb every tree within the vicinity of the settlement.

I held out my hand, and Tim dropped the tiny camera into my palm. “Where did you find it?”

“Come, I’ll show you. The camera is not all I found,” Tim said. He looked grim.

The three of us walked in silence toward our house. He approached the window and pointed to a spot in the corner of the window frame. It was no bigger than a dime and was positioned in such a way that the light would not reflect off the lens. The camera had been worked into a whorl in the wood, and unless someone looked very closely, it would appear to be just a natural knot that happened to be at the perfect height to see us all clearly, whether we were standing or lying down.

I peered into tiny hole where the camera had been and noticed that there was an opening that led out through the wall and now allowed in a chink of light.

“What happened to the wire?” I asked.

“Come and see.”

We headed back outside and stood before the window, which faced the back of the house. I could clearly see the opening now that I knew what I was looking for and could trace the thin wire that ran along the length of the post. And then I saw what Tim was so angry about. At the very bottom, where the post met the ground, the wire had been severed, so the camera had definitely not been recording.

“Let’s see if we can find the camera in the women’s house,” Tim said. “Maybe it’s in the same spot.”

We crossed the square and examined the window frames carefully.

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