* * *Susan was on the verandah writing in a notebook when he returned an hour later. "That took long enough," she said as he climbed the stairs. "What'd you find out?"
"Well, we weren't losing any water, anyway. It was turned off at the source."
"And where is that?"
"Above Mokolea Road, where it turns left up there. Our pipe comes off a bigger pipe and runs straight down to here. Or did. The whole section crossing CSS property was taken out."
"Why would they do that?" Susan asked. "Even if they had the right to they should have notified us. That was incredibly shitty."
Neal lowered himself into one of the rattan chairs. "Maybe they forgot."
"Yeah, right." Susan closed her notebook and tossed it down. "Well, what now? We've got to have water."
"I don't know. I went to Yam
