Beyond the Bright Sea

Crow’s fears are confirmed: is the wreck is the Shearwater. Osh, Maggie, and Crow help retrieve sailors from the water. One of them, Crow realizes, is “the young man I’d seen leaving New Bedford Harbor” (253). He has been injured and knocked unconscious, and they offer to take him in until the storm dies down, since there is no hospital in the area.

Osh and Maggie retrieve supplies, leaving Crow to stay with the sailor in the cabin. She tries telling herself she is looking at “Jason—no, Osh was right—at the sailor” (257). That night, Kendall breaks in and demands the treasure. He says he has already attacked Osh and Maggie, but Crow refuses to give in. When Kendall threatens to burn down the cottage with the sailor inside, Crow agrees to take him to the treasure.

Crow takes Kendall to Cuttyhunk and leads him to the hornbeam tree at Maggie’s where the treasure is. Crow feigns being afraid of climbing the tree, but Kendall forces her to do it. Midway, she jumps down, runs into Maggie’s house, locks the door, and watches Kendall climb the tree. Hearing a noise, Crow finds Osh and Maggie tied up but relatively unscathed.