10.
“Be careful of that,” Keogh goes on. “It’s very old.”
Rodney hands me a pair of white gloves which I slip on before sliding the paper out of the bottle. Gently I unroll it and discover a hand-drawn map.
“I’m allowing you the pleasure of viewing and touching the real thing,” Keogh explains. “I’m well aware of your love of antiquities, Chase. But my team has assembled a comprehensive computer-generated map for your smartphone and/or iPad for your real-time use in the field.”
“iPads, real-time, smartphones…Sounds rather unromantic, doesn’t it?” I point out while peering up from the old map.
“Perhaps one hundred years from now, it will be a different story.”
“That is, if the earth lasts another one hundred years.”
I take a moment to examine Keogh the Second’s crude map. It’s not ver
