Chapter 6 of 10
Thursday night Ivy does the whole sum at the kitchen table with the good lamp. Bushel tallies by block, the cider fractions, last year's prices and this year's worse, the bank's figure opposite, like an opponent. She works until the numbers stop moving, then sits with the answer. It is bad, not the bad everyone carried. On cider contracts alone, at this year's prices, the orchard can hold a restructured debt: not comfortably, truly. The terror was never the arithmetic; it was walking into Friday without the deed, a farm with no proof of what it owns begging terms from a bank with proof of everything. Paper is the whole fight, she tells Ray. The trees have already won it, if we can put the right paper on the table. Which is the paper the house cannot find.
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A chapter of The Cider Press, a mystery told in word searches. Each chapter leaves you one clue; the finale needs them all.
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- 1Read the scene first.Every chapter opens with a scene from the case. The word list is drawn from it, and so is the clue.
- 2Find the words.Tap a word's first letter, then tap along to its last, or press and drag. Found words color themselves in and cross off the list.
- 3One listed word is not in the grid.Find the other nine and the word left over is the chapter's clue. Note it down, or let the case page keep it for you.
- 4The finale needs every clue.The last puzzle's word list is the clues you collected, and once you find them all, the leftover letters spell out who did it, and why.