My immediate reaction was dismay Somewhere in the back of my mind had been a clear narrative thread: we'd enter the house, go upstairs, and find what had been Elizabeth's bedroom in those long-ago days when she'd been known as LibbitThere my missing arm, sometimes known as Edgar Freemantle's Divine Psychic Dowser, would lead me to a left-behind steamer trunk (or perhaps only a humble crate)Inside would be more drawings, the missing drawings, the ones that would tell me where Perse was and solve the riddle of the leaky table A pretty tale, and only one problem with it: the top half of Heron's Roost no longer existedThe 946 house was on an exposed knoll, and its upper stories had been torn completely away in some long-ago stormThe ground replica watches rolex floor still stood, but it was engulfed in gray-green vines which had also swarmed up the pillars in frontSpanish Moss hung from the eaves, turning the veranda into a cave The house was ringed with shattered orange tiles, all that remained of the roofThey poked up like giants' teeth from the swale of weeds that had replaced the lawnThe last twenty-five yards of the shell drive had been buried in strangler fig So had the tennis court and what might once have been a child's playhouseMore vines crept up the sides of the long, barnlike outbuilding behind the court and scrabbled along what remained of the playhouse's shingles "What's that?" Jack was pointing between the tennis court and the main houseThere a long rectangle of evil black soup handbag chanel simmered in the afternoon sunMost of the bug-drone seemed to be coming from that direction 947 "Now? I'd call it a tarpit," Wireman said"Back in the Roaring Twenties, I imagine the Eastlake family called it their swimming pool "Imagine taking a dip in that," Jack said, and shuddered The pool was surrounded by willowsBehind it was another thick stand of Brazilian Peppers, and - "Wireman, are those banana trees?" I asked"And probably full of snakes Look on the west side, Edgar On the Gulf side of Heron's Roost, the snarl of weeds, vines, and creepers that had once been John Eastlake's lawn gave way to sea oatsThe breeze was good and the view was better, making me realize that the one thing you rarely got in Florida was heightHere we had just ladies rolex for sale enough to make it seem like the Gulf of Mexico was at our feetDon Pedro Island was to our left, Casey Key dreaming away in a blue-gray haze to our right "Drawbridge is still up," Jack said, sounding amused"They're really having problems this time"Look down there, along that old pathDo you see there?" 948 He followed my pointing finger"The rock outcropping? Sure, I see itNot coral, I don't think, although I'd have to get a little closer to be sure - what about it?" "Quit being a geologist for a minute and just look What do you see?" He lookedIt was Jack who got it first"A profile?" Then he said it again, without the hesitation"We can only see the forehead, the indentation of the eyesocket, and the top of the nose from here, but I bet if we prada knock offs were on the beach, we'd see a mouth, as wellOr what passed for oneAnd Shade Beach right below it, I'll bet you anythingWhere John Eastlake went on his treasure-hunting expeditions "And where the twins drowned," Wireman added "That's the path they walked to get thereThe breeze tugged at our hairWe looked at the path, still visible after all these yearsLittle feet going down to swim hadn't done thatA footpath between Heron's Roost and Shade 949 Beach would have disappeared in five years, maybe only two "That's no path," Jack said, reading my mind "That used to be a roadNot paved, but a road, just the sameWhy would anybody want a road between their house and the beach, when it couldn't have been more than a ten-minute walk?" Wireman shook his cartier women's watches