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Chapter 19

Jon's experience with the figure on the cliff kept his adrenaline pumping. He couldn't sleep. He couldn't get comfortable, unable to turn down the volume of his thoughts. His cracker box abode jerked every time he turned over.

It was three in the morning when he gave it up, only to sit drooped across a chair trying to sort a jumble of things in his mind.

Being out of doors gave him relief from his claustrophobia and would help him come to terms with his cramped quarters. He tramped out into the night air and down the lane toward the village. He brushed past the low-hanging branches of a tree. The wet air chilled his face. Life had taken a strange turn in recent months. He hated loose ends and uncertainty.