The place was perfectly situated for the evening s
business. It stood almost exactly at the midpoint of
e five-mile crescent of the bay; from the air, the
sweeping shoreline resembled a crude sickle slicing into
the water, marked by a pale, foamy smear where the easy
wash of the bay tides met the dark rocks footing the
bluffs.
The house sat close to the cliff. It was a loose, sprawl-
ing geometry of shingle and clapboard in the middle of
what had once been a wide clearing in the surrounding
pine forest--a glade, now covered with a roughly cared-
for lawn. According to local legend, the Vikings had
landed here and been slaughtered on the spot by local
Indians, themselves now long since driven off, first by
~rs and finally by the insistent encroachment of resort
houses.
To sailors entering the bay on a misty day, the forest
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