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took pictures. They just tossed it aside, but my boyfriend remembered seeing something like the bottle here at the museum.” Genie’s cell phone beeped. Sheri gave the phone back to her, and she immediately began text messaging.
    â€œGranted, it doesn’t have to be the Crescent or even a ship’s bell. An out-of-focus image on a cell phone doesn’t prove anything.”
    â€œBut it could be, right? It could be?” Genie said, as she frantically texted.
    Sheri knew exactly what she meant. The discovery, if it was the Crescent, would be huge. But she didn’t want to speculate. She didn’t want to think about the possibility that it could be the legendary ship. “No. There’s still not nearly enough evidence to jump to that conclusion,” she said as sheshook her head. “We need more than an artifact half-covered in mud with letters on it.”
    Genie looked almost crushed.
    â€œWe don’t do maybes or what ifs. We need cold, hard, indisputable evidence.”
    Genie nodded. They continued in silence, knowing what they needed was a miracle. Just then Genie’s phone beeped again. There was another text message and downloaded image. She opened it to see what her boyfriend had sent. She smiled and handed her phone to Sheri. “I think we just got cold, hard, indisputable evidence.”
    Sheri nodded. “Yeah, we need to get to the site right now.”
    â€œDefinitely,” Genie said, racing down the stairs.
    â€œWait,” Sheri said as she trailed Genie. “I need to go back to my office and get my backpack and camera.”
    â€œOkay, I’ll get my Jeep and meet you out front.”
    Sheri headed to her office with no idea what she was getting herself into. A sense of trepidation suddenly seized her, quelling some of the excitement. Finding an old medicine bottle and what looked like a ship’s bell was promising. But the possibility of unearthing what looked like the ribbed, wooden frame of the ship’s hull was definitely an important find. Her heart began to race as she stuffed her laptop in her backpack, grabbed her camera, her jacket and then headed out.
    She locked her office door, hurried downstairs through the museum and quickly caught up with Genie just as she drove up to the front entrance. She sidestepped a puddle then looked down at her outfit. She hadn’t expected to be outside, away from the museum that day, so she certainly hadn’t dressed to dig around a construction site. Four-inch stilettos and a business suit would have to do. As soon as she climbed into the passenger seat, Genie took off. She glanced into the backseat. Genie had brought just about everything from her office. “Okay, Hamilton Development is at Crescent Point. It’s on the other side of the island.”
    â€œHow long has your boyfriend worked for them?” Sheri asked.
    â€œOnly a few weeks, he doesn’t know much about them, just that he hates working there. He said that Jordan Hamilton is a coldhearted workaholic. And believe me, that’s putting it nicely. Apparently Jordan and his foreman complain about everything Jamie does. The thing is Jamie had worked for his father’s construction company just about all his life before it went bankrupt. So he thinks he can do the same things he used to. At his father’s company, he didn’t really do anything. He’d go in late and sleep all day in the trailer. He can’t do that here. He actually has to do work and he hates it. Anyway, he said Jordan is the worst of the three brothers.”
    â€œThere are three brothers?” Sheri asked.
    â€œSheri, seriously, you must have had your head in the sand these past months.”
    â€œActually running the museum without a curator on a shoestring budget, keeping the building from falling in on our heads, organizing the historical records and putting them in a database has kept me more than a little busy. So yeah, I