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Show 23 "It would be a good thing," she looked at him quietly, "I think, for the children." "Good then." "Do you mind?" "No." "Where you going up there to find yourself?" "I had no plans for what I was going to find." "O.K., then. I'll get the kids." "Sure. O.K." "A man named Russell drowned there once. That's why it's called Russell's Pond," Sean said. "Was his first or last name Russell?" his father asked him. "I'm not sure." They climbed their private road, bringing the dog along as well, to the State Highway. "I thought the walking was all through the woods." Leah watched Toby the dog racing back and forth along the unstraightened road. "You go about a mile down 114," Sean told her. "Then cut off." "Hunt?" Leah watched the dog leaping the plow ridges for juncos. She watched a passing Volkswagen bus. "Do you want me to take him home?" "Well -" She bit her lip. Hunt found a thick, rusted piece of wire in some sand. He wrapped one |