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lester Vaughan
THE WHITE STONES
THE WHITE STONES
You are on a ferry going to the island of Skaran in Ireland. You are an archaeologist and you want to study the very old white stones on the island – they are 4, 500 years old. But on the ferry, you meet a woman. ‘The people on the island don’t like archaeologists,’ she says.
After you arrive on the island, you drive your car down a small road. There are some trees next to the road, and suddenly one tree begins to move. It falls down in front of your car and you stop quickly. ‘Is there somebody behind the trees?’ you think. What do you do next? Do you go to the trees and look for somebody, or do you move the tree? Be careful – there is only one way to find the answer to the mystery of the white stones.
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