Chapter 12: The Second Clue

The next morning, Ishida adjusted the ship’s course to the northeast. 

Breakfast that day was brief and silent. No one said a single word; each of them seemed to be thinking. 

The rest of the morning was rather uneventful. The afternoon, however, was quite the opposite. 

At half-past two, Ishida spotted a plane— a seaplane, actually— in the sky. It appeared to be flying around in circles. 

Looking through a telescope, Ishida discovered that it was a Piletan aircraft. 

“How unusual!” he remarked. “The Piletans nev