Helen watched him try the door. Was there something she should have done to reactivate an entry lock? No. The door did not open. He walked around the cabin on the West side.

As soon as he was out of sight -- with words of canoe-boarding-wisdom from Wilderness Survival for Dummies playing in her head -- she dashed to the beach, pushed the canoe into the shallow water, climbed aboard and paddled East as fast as she could. Her goal was to reach a promontory about a mile down the coast before Clara's father (if that was who he was) discovered that both the canoe and his quarry were missing. She had just rounded the promontory, when she saw the helicopter.