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Stringing Lights
The pipes in the old railway station turned out to be corroded. Jessica had to make a quick hike back to the lodge to get her tools, where she informed Barry that she was helping Mr. Dawes with some maintenance work, and told him to call Kirsten if there were any emergencies at the lodge. Kirsten, seemingly recovered from her thrills on the ski slope, was up in the library, reading out of a big hardback tome with symbols instead of letters on the spine.
By the time Jessica got back to the grotto, she found Mr. Dawes had made a plate of sandwiches. ‘No work goes well on an empty stomach,’ he said. ‘And we have coffee. But like you say, no hot choc until the job is done.’
After finishing the sandwiches—mountain goose and cranberry, so Mr. Dawes claimed, although it ta
