CHAPTER 4From the Diary of Tommy Wilks
(Saturday)
They’re gone—Jean and Rex Tate. Nobody around here knows what to think because there is no place to go. No ships have come in or gone out. Everybody is talking about it. Some people say Rex Tate had a ship and that he put Jean in it and took her away. But how can that be true? Where could anybody hide a ship around here? The country is flat as far as you can see. They say he must have had a ship hidden up in the ice country—in the forbidden circle and he took her up there.
But that is crazy too. They were having supper here last night when Mom and Dad and I went to the Parker’s for supper. They weren’t here when we got back and none of the cars or horses are gone so how could they have got away?
They say he took Jean away, but I wonder
