| 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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