I don't think I scared it off, it was probably just hungry.I got up out of those reeds as fast as I could. I looked at a copy of the map that Sarah ga...ve me. There were four Xs that I had to check out here. I would try visit all of them tonight and look at the spot on the north east coast of the island. The first X was at the front gate on a small hillock. It only took me a few minutes of searching until I found the hidden compartment. Inside the compartment was a lever. I checked to make sure. The maid who met Jojo at the front door, was obviously expecting her. The house was like something out of a movie set. It didn't seem real, because it was too grand and ostentatious. They walked across the marble floor to a flagstone patio at the back of the house. A lady, who Jojo assumed to be Mrs. Stevens, was seated at a glass topped table with a bottle of beer. The beer seemed out of place to the surroundings. She was well-groomed and dignified, but she had a hard edge as well. Jojo sensed. . had been treating Charlie as though he were some dumb cowpoke out of a bad western. He was just "displaced." He was nearly 20,000 kilometers from 'home' and in a totally alien culture. As though I'd been dropped in the middle of Saskatchewan or ... in fact ... West Texas."I'm sorry, Charlie. I mean it." I understand, Gordy. An' you kids bin real good to me. I'd a never found my way through them desk jockeys in Alice Springs. Likely, I'd be on my way home. Or already there. Or in jail waitin'. As the team cleared our aisle we broke, heading for our places along the sidelines. I took off on a tumbling run like I hadn't thrown in weeks, all the way down to the far end of the field. It was insane! I got in a series of forward handsprings into a round off into back handsprings, tossing off three whip-backs -- more than I'd ever done at once -- ending with a twisting back summy, landing it with a step or two that would've cost me points on a floor exercise.Matt finished up beside me. "Are.