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WHILE WE WERE discussing the details of travel, Devlin asked the office downstairs for safe places to hire boats. This whole episode had been highly educational to me. Previously I would have thought you “just” hired a boat, and that boat hire was a service you paid for and someone delivered in the same way you ordered groceries or laundry services, and that the quality and timeliness of the product or service was the main consideration in choosing a service.
But that was not the way with boats in Barresh.
We couldn’t hire from any of the companies associated with Clovis. I still wasn’t one hundred percent sure that Clovis personally had anything to do with Robert’s marooning on the island—he just didn’t seem the type of person who would do this—but I sure as hell didn’t trust him. I
