“I made chicken stew, fish cake and salad at the side for dinner.” I told him.“Smells good.” Was the only reply.Looking up when I sat down on ...he chair, I saw him staring at me. A strange look cross over his face before it went back to that cold and emotionless mask.Again, like always, dinner was a quiet one. I didn’t ask him how his day went and he didn’t ask how school was today. After dinner, when Uncle Max went upstairs and I was drying the dishes with a cloth, the phone rang. I looked up. Rose and I roamed around the picnic area looking for them but to no avail, we could not find them.We sat down at one of the benches and started to think through what had just happen. From the other side of the picnic area we saw a silhouette walking in our direction. Without delay, we crawled under the picnic table to hide. We kept our eyes peeled to see who was coming.Once the lights shone on their faces, we could see it was Ellen and her boyfriend, James. We crawled out of the table and. They were different shapes and colours depending on the rocks they had been chipped from when the stream became a raging river in the wet seasons. Albi was delighted as it meant less work for us. He pointed out that many of the larger and rougher pieces could be easily chipped or cut into the sizes we wanted.He suggested that if we put them in a polishing barrel, they would make excellent gems for all sorts of jewellery. In just a day, we’d found enough, already beautifully polished, small. The following day, Greg Danner summoned Deputy Nottingham to the Danner house, where he was introduced to Lucy Danner number four. It turned out that this was the real Lucy Danner, and that for the previous two weeks she'd been locked away in the attic while number two took her place. At least, that was what they claimed. Later that same day, Sheriff Turton's uniform was discovered on the shore, and a suicide note found on the computer in his office. It seemed he was suffering from terminal.