chapter 1 FORGOTTEN GRAVES Stan wiped his sweaty forehead as he climbed the hill It was hot even though the sun was starting to set That grove on the other side of the hill is always cooler Stan turned to his friend Amy The trees block the sun all day 6
You go ahead I’ll catch up Amy said I have a pebble in my shoe Stan jogged down the hill to the grove He already felt cooler This section of the cemetery was overgrown with brush and weeds Hardly anyone ever visited this area The graves were more than a hundred years old No one who was still alive had known those people The setting sun cast a reddish glow on a cluster of small gravestones about fifty yards away Stan didn’t recall seeing them before 7
I thought I knew every stone in this cemetery he thought He walked toward them to check The stones were in a stand of trees It had a small gap where the fading sunlight poked through They were hard to see 8
