THE MAGIC CIRCLE CHALLENGE:
Hints from The Matrix
One said NOON, after which I got lost in the maze. After a while I
found a backwards ten and followed it around in a circle, reading: TEN
A.M. ROOM THIRTY-SEVEN. Fat chance Sam would be so complex, just to
deliver so simple a message. More complex by far was the word EVE that I
finally found branching up from the ampersand. Its message danced all over
the page: SUNDAY EVE AT LODGE DINING ROOM EIGHT P.M. WEAR YELLOW SCARF--as
if I needed to be identified by a flag. Hmm.
Besides, though Sun Valley lay near three towns, two mountain ranges, and miles of open, skiable tundra where we might meet, I was sure Sam had said we should meet on Baldy, the ski mountain itself, because we both knew it so well. Given my armload of stitches and my current physical condition, I wasn't too anxious to clamp on my Alpines again. But it seemed I might have little choice.
I was sure I hadn't encountered the right message yet. It had to be the one following the word NOON--so where did it lead?
THE MAGIC CIRCLE:
About the Book
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The Magic Circle Challenge
KATHERINE NEVILLE:
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