Treasure Hunters #4: Deep Waters

Treasure Hunters #4: Deep Waters — page 1 — For all my English teachers who made this happen

Treasure Hunters #4: Deep Waters — page 2 — Chapter One The The sky had been calm but on the night of the twenty-third a wind came in from the east bringing with it heavy rains and stirring the seas into a mad frenzy Father Michaels read He was reading from the parish register itself the translation he’d written out on a yellow legal pad was lying on Carrie Kingsolver’s lap forgotten The will of our Lord or of some darker being caused the fleet of Our Majesty the King to be passing by the tip of our island as the worst of the deluge broke and I witnessed the breaking breaking of seventeen ships upon the unforgiving shores of the nearby islands Four I saw crumble on the cliffs of 5

Treasure Hunters #4: Deep Waters — page 3 — St Juan Seven I saw succumb to the waves in open ocean five were blown beyond the eyes of this your servant and one poor souls made it nearly to shore before the deluge claimed it on the farthest edge of this island where the white cliffs look over the waters thick with mussels The prow of this ship bore an octopus and it was trimmed in red and I pray that I may offer some relief to the families of the sailors lost to the waves upon her deck Father Michaels closed the register leaving a single strip of acid free paper in as a bookmark It’s rough he said It’s been a while since I needed to do much Latin translation and there are some variations from the priest’s native Spanish that complicated things but the bit about the octopus is suggestive The prow of the San Telmo was decorated by an octopus Carrie agreed fiddling with the corner of the translation Father Michaels was being extraordinarily extraordinarily helpful and the translation he had produced only a week after being asked was just about all Carrie could have hoped for but she still felt exposed 6

Treasure Hunters #4: Deep Waters — page 4 — and adrift sitting there in the rectory without Chris to ask awkward questions Chris had begged off visiting Father Michaels with the excuse that he had a job application he needed to fill out which was either a blatant lie or a symptom of just how hard Maddison’s leaving had hit Chris Carrie had not had time to decide He was moping but that was to be expected The question was mostly what direction his moping was going to go would he decide to throw all his energy into the search for the San Telmo or would he decide to try pretending it had never existed in the first place Although Carrie was usually the only one who ever tried to pretend things never happened Chris got more and more attached to something the harder you tried to discourage discourage him and the harder you tried the more obvious he made it that he was still on the problem Carrie Father Michaels said and Carrie abruptly realized she’d zoned out The priest was looking at her with some concern Is everything all right Yes Carrie said and then inwardly winced at 7

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