Drifting With the Tide. Chapter 36. 

The rinsing machine had an immediate impact and business dropped, “wattle lady” was now getting most of the business again. 2 strangers go over to the island. No fishing gear.

Skip’s barge slips its moorings. Carl thinks it was deliberate. Justine confronts Carl and wants to know why he has not retuned her calls.

A Shooting War. Chapter 37.

Someone shoots out the windows on the “wattle lady”, Skip is blamed. Carl finds the 2 strangers talking to Skip and Skip tells him that it is all over and they are selling the barge. Carl is devastated the barge has become his life. Joy tells him that all will be explained in a few days.

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 A Bridge at Last.  Chapter 38.

Carl is home with Beryl since the barge stopped running. Local newspaper has the headline “Bridge at Last” developers are building it. Bruce is going to be ruined since he sunk so much money into the “wattle lady” he dumps Beryl and blames Carl. Turns out Bruce shot up the barge hoping to blame Skip. Joy arrives at Beryl’s and tells Carl that they sold the barge to the development company because they needed one to use until the bridge is built. The 2 strangers on the island were from the development company.

 They had to keep it secret and could not tell him earlier. Joy tells Carl she wants him to live with them and that she wants him to go to the missing person’s bureau about Kerry. She says you have to know,