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57 pages 1 hour read

Daniel G. Miller

The Orphanage by the Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Chapters 21-30Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 21 Summary

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of rape, pedophilia, and death by suicide.

Hazel has six days left to find Mia for the reward. She researches the Dionysus Theater and discovers it is the term used to describe an ancient Greek theater in the Acropolis in Athens, where ritual sacrifice took place. On a Reddit thread, she finds an address for a Dionysus Theater at 522 West Thirty-Eighth Street in Manhattan. Kenny wakes up. He is hungover, but he agrees to help Hazel investigate.

Chapter 22 Summary

On their way to the location, Hazel tells Kenny she is investigating the Dionysus Theater, which she suspects is connected to Mia and the other girls’ disappearances. Kenny agrees to help, but he says he has a meeting with his knife-collecting club in an hour. On the subway, Hazel sees a bald man with a scar, who she thinks she recognizes.

At the address, they find a painting on the wall of the same symbol of Dionysus that Hazel found on the back of Mia’s photo. Hazel decides to pick the building’s lock and go in to investigate. Kenny doesn’t approve of breaking and entering, and he leaves. Hazel breaks into the building. It seems to be an abandoned theater, but there is evidence that people were there recently.

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