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[indent][indent]“Well, sure, son.” The older man chuckled, “Of course I have. I live here.”

The old man and girl looked over toward Howard as the former thought about his question about tips. Queen’s Island was fairly large. Many people had gone missing in the past forty years. Maybe ever since it was founded in the 19th Century. As the boy joined him and the girl he pointed out the hotel in the distance. The hotel everyone on the ferry had been invited to save for the captain of the ship and the old man himself. 

“That there is the great Priswell Estate Hotel. The jewel of Queen’s Isle.” He explained with a gentle voice, “There are many places that are beautiful on the island, but the hotel is definitely the centerpiece. The main attraction. Did you know Connie Converse stayed in that there hotel? Before she vanished, of course.”

“Can’t say I’ve ever heard of her.” The girl stated.

He nodded. That was normal. She was certainly no Elvis Presley. Nobody talked about Connie Converse. 

“We don’t get many people out here, so you tend to remember them. She had a pretty voice, I’d say.”

“What else is there?”

More insistence from the girl. She was a curious one. Then again, he was trailing off. The two youths likely didn’t want to hear him ramble about some songwriter from his childhood. Queen’s Island had many places to uncover that had a natural beauty to them and he had to remind himself that visitors never had a chance to see them so he often didn’t explain them often. He thought of the waterfall on the old caves, the French fortress, the old hunting lodge, and other things. Native American burial grounds. The hiking trail. The closed down insane asylum.

“There’s the old lodge in the Bloom Brush Forest. Some old indian sites. You can go up the old hiking trail inward. There’s the ruins of Regarder les Reines, the old French fortress. Pre-Civil War. We really ought to take better care of it, though. Guess it all depends on you kids and what interests you. Some people find the old asylum interesting; others with the natural caves by l'oeil de Dieu, the old waterfall that runs off the few mountains we have. It’s a pretty diverse island. Great for photography. ”





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