15C Sunny, light wind.

Helped with the paper work at the Ladies Founders Day yesterday, more today. Invited out for dinner last night and cards later.
Tired yesterday after another early awakening, but slept through till 5:30 this morning.
I had hoped to see an email from Lotto max this morning but no such luck.

He headed down the trail and when he reached the fork broke into a trot.

  

Chapter 9

When Alicia got back to the beach she pushed her boat out into the water lowered the motor, started it and making a quick turn set off for Ucluelet almost two hours away.

As she planed along, she started to shake and a let out a few sobs. Tears ran down her cheeks until she angrily wiped them away, she shouted out “Stupid, stupid; I’ll show him. It is mine, it is mine.”

She hunched over the tiller arm and stared into the deepening shadows.

When Alicia awoke the next morning her first thought was to go back that day but after thinking over a couple of cups of coffee she decided to get well prepared and wait a few days. ‘Besides let him think that I’m not coming back, then he will have let down his guard.’

That morning she went to the bank and after taking out the old document she went to the town’s only Notary Public. She explained that she wanted a photocopy and that the copy would be notarized as a true copy of the original, she also had the same thing done with the old map. Later she went to a marine supply store and purchased a chart of the Barkley Sound area and encircled the small island that the chart identified as Captains (Go’nsay) Island.

She made photocopies of her birth certificate and that of her mother’s. Her mother’s certificate identified that she was the daughter of  Silas Ferguson and Marcet Aleuta.