Chapter 17

CHAPTER 17 Michael and Dr. Gomez rolled into Bethlehem with little hope of finding Merle and Pearl. The disappointment of not intercepting them at Nabi Musa grew stronger at Mar Saba, the last stop on the trail before Bethlehem. "Where did they go?" Michael wondered. "We should have caught up to them by now, right, Dad?" "If they left Jericho when the innkeeper said they did and were walking to Bethlehem, we definitely should have found them by now," Dr. Gomez said. "The only thing that makes sense to me is that they were headed someplace else."

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"Where?" "There's three possibilities; back up to Nazareth, over to Jerusalem along the Old Jericho Road, or down to the Dead Sea." "The Dead Sea?" Michael gasped. He knew how much Merle and Pearl feared returning to the place where they had been petrified for 2,000 years. "That doesn't make sense to me, though. If the Dead Sea was their intended destination, they would have been brought there in the first place, not to a big city like Nazareth," Dr. Gomez reasoned. "Going back up to Nazareth would also not be likely— Ruben probably thinks we're still there." "So Jerusalem," Michael said. Dr. Gomez nodded and turned north.