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“No,” Julia gasped “Does it give the name of the nut?”

“It’s called nux viridi lucus It reen-eyed nut’”

“Eric, can you find any nut with that name?”

“I’”

“It’s probably called so else now,” Julia said “Without a picture of it, the nut may be impossible to find”

“We don’t even knohat island they were on,” Murph said “It could be any one of thousands in the Indian Ocean It’s not looking good Maybe I should get used to this chair”

Sylvia sniffled, and Eric put a reassuring hand on her shoulder

“Don’t give up yet,” Juan said “We’ll try out every single nut in existence if we have to I knoe’ll find the antidote”

Julia didn’t look as confident about his reassurances because of the ti to Sylvia They would never be able to replicate the antidote in a week if they didn’t know the key ingredient

“Let’s get back to the ship and see e can come up with,” Juan said

“Before we go, I want to get photos of the dental work on these skeletons,” Julia said “It will help their faet closure if we can identify the bodies for the authorities”

She knelt beside the bones and gently lifted each skull one by one to take the pictures

On the fourth person, soround when she picked up the skull

“What’s that?”

Juan bent over and focused his light on a blue plastic object the shape of a piece of gum