
You are Nelly, and your friend Kate Lancaster has inherited a house on the Maine coast — reason enough, she says, to keep it themselves for the summer. The Brandon house comes stocked with sea chests and a locked escritoire holding a dead aunt's private life: a black-ribboned packet marking a friend's death, a brother's crucifix from a voyage he never returned from. By lamplight you and Kate turn the packet over, unopened, deciding whether curiosity should win over keeping faith with the dead.
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