 Fighting their way to the island's overgrown region—Heron's Roost, the original Eastlake manor—the trio locate the Perse-carving, trapped in fresh (as opposed to her native salt) water, and sealed in a (water-filled) ceramic keg of table whiskey, in which a crack has formed during the passage of years ("the table is leaking").Edgar returns the figurine to fresh-water slumber, and faces down one final Perse-temptation, wearing the face of his drowned daughter Ilse.Freemantle and Wireman then fly north, to Minnesota, where they drop the statuette into Lake Phalen's freshwater depths, to sleep undisturbed.