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It is Friday again, so, here is Chapter 4. Just a short one for you.


In the Warehouse, Artie stared at his board of seemingly random items. Pictures of Captain Daniel's entire crew were taped to the right of the board. A large map of known wrecks in the lower Caribbean took the middle of the board. Several were circled. New paper articles mentioning Captain Daniels littered the edges of the board. Several strings attached different pictures and articles where Artie saw a correlation. His finger traced his line of thought as he searched for a connection between present day events and past artifacts.

Claudia noisily entered. Her arms were loaded with large and very heavy looking books. She was out of breath from hauling her load up the stairs to the office and there was a spider's web in her hair. She breathlessly dropped her load on Artie's desk.

"Careful with those! They're pre 18th century!" he warned.

"They're prehistoric is what they are! Thank god for digital!" She caught sight of the web in her bangs and started plucking it out. "Ew! Ew!" She ran for a mirror.

Artie shot her a look of irritation and shook his head. "I need you to get the next set of ship log books!" he called after her.

"How many are there?" she called from the front of the office. Artie looked at the map on the board. There were 23 known wrecks in the area where Captain Daniels found his wreck. His own Warehouse records showed an additional 17 undiscovered wrecks in the area.

"Uh… a few more!" he evaded.

Artie went over to the log books that he made Claudia retrieve and started looking through them. It wasn't long before he found some of the ships he wanted most. He separated out one book from the others and flipped to the back of the book. He lifted his glasses and started to read the sailor's description of how his ship was lost to the most savage pirate in history. Words like "haystack" and "needle" kept drifting through his mind.