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“Yes.”

“Where?”

“Simon believes the compass contains the location.”

Ben looks toward Thomas.

“Did James ever open Calle’s compass?”

“Not in front of me.”

“You said he attached the prisms to the gifts.”

“He did.”

“But the compass already belonged to Calle.”

Thomas nods slowly.

“James gave it to her when she was eleven.”

Two years before Dad died.

Grandpa added the prism afterward.

“What did he change?” Ben asks.

Thomas looks at me.

“The face.”

I think about the compass inside the evidence room. The original glass had been removed, and Grandpa’s blue prism fitted over the dial.

“He replaced the markings,” Thomas says. “James engraved a new compass rose after Daniel died.”

“Not to show direction,” Ben says. “To show a location.”

Marquez reaches for her radio.

“Secure the evidence room. No one enters without my authorization.”

Keating issues the same order to his Coast Guard officers.

The complete roll of film may still exist.

It may contain everything Dad saw aboard the Mariner’s Crown.

Donald Cross.

Kessler.

Simon.

Proof that Dad’s death was murder.

“Where is Simon?” I ask Marcus.

“I told you, I don’t know.”