The Cartographers

by Peng Shepherd

“What the heck would cause over two hundred of you to be missing or stolen?” she muttered.

Im thinking its all the one map. Not Two hundred of them.

“I’d forgotten all about that silly little secret compartment,” Swann finally said, wiping his eyes, after she’d finished telling him everything she’d discovered so far. “You have the map with you now?”

Sus

“Ramona Wu and your father, and mother, were old friends?” “And a couple others, all from their university days. There were seven of them in total,” Nell answered. “I couldn’t believe it either.”

They are the cartagraphers

“What was he going to do with this stupid map, if not sell it? Why did he keep it all this time, then?”

Her mom had the map and was killed when the cartographers burned their house down. Her dad told her it was junk when she found it to keep her from getting involved.

“Francis.” Nell took a step back, alarmed. “Francis is a Cartographer?” Eve nodded. “So am I,” she said. “The Cartographers were us. All seven of us.”

Duh

A little town called Agloe.

So Nell could go to Romi's shop because the map was drawn on the business car, and if she had the Sanborn map in the NYPL she would have probably found the closet on that map.

He wondered how William got into the building unseen by the rest of his thousands of employees, on the days that he was here. Maybe he had his own secret entrance and elevator. Or maybe he just lived here, and never left, like a true ghost.

Or maybe he has a map with a secret settlement

Bear was Humphrey.

I had a guess he was going to be one of them, but i leaned toward wally.

“All of it,” he whispered. Dr. Young. Irene. Even the library security contract. “It was you. You did all of it.”

Daniel opposed the security system from haberwhatever because itwas wally running the company the whole time. Ugh

Wally had struck Nell’s father and Irene when they were alone—there was safety in numbers, Nell hoped.

Ugh and i just realized wally/william got in and out of his comany building with a map that has a secret settlement.