Chapter 8Marshall arrived at Neil’s house the next morning carrying two camping lanterns. When Neil c****d an eyebrow in question, Marshall said, “If we’re going to spend the day down there going through the boxes, I figured we should have better lighting.”
“Hopefully it won’t take all day,” Neil replied.
“It will if we don’t get started,” Pattie called out from the kitchen.
Laughing, the two men joined her. Marshall set the lanterns down on the counter and got a cup of coffee, then after handing one of them to Pattie, they went into the pantry where Neil used a thin screwdriver to open the door to the hidden room.
When they got down there, Marshall set the lanterns on the top of the trunk, turning them on. They lit the small room well enough to let everyone see what they were doing wi
