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“My brother is in charge He has eyes on Bako and his five closest ht”

“Better than I could have wished,” Sae”

The engine started, and the boat turned slightly so Tibor could cli up the quiet river toward the lake

Sam and Remi drove to the open cha rope to lower themselves into the dark stone rooht and shone it on each of the plain stone walls This tiraved iron plate But on the floor, visible only now that the treasure had been reraved letters They stood over it, and Reraphs with her cell phone, then reviewed the theat hi back to read this Are you?”

“I wasn’t thinking about that,” she said

“What were you thinking?”

“That this isn’t like the huge iron slab we found in Hungary I’ll bet that, using the car, we could lift this thing out”

Sale it but couldn’t Then he used his pocketknife to scrape at the ht back,” he said and climbed up the rope and out He returned a few minutes later with the other rope, both crowbars, and the hammer They went to work on the mortar, and in a short time they had freed the stone They pried it up, and Sa side He climbed up, and Rehtly smaller than the blocklike stones that made up the bulk of the room It rose easily and then stopped Remi climbed up the rope and joined Sam at the surface and then went to the car and used it to pull while Saround The two of them used their crowbars to lift the stone up so they could slide it onto the backseat floor

“You were right,” he said “This tie for Bako to see”

They used the car to drag the larger stone back over the opening to seal the chamber Then they shoveled and pushed the round was even, the chamber entrance was four feet under

Remi turned and looked back at the plowed field “Wow Look”

It was just beginning to get light, so they could see their deep tire tracks running from the chamber t

o the riverbank and back “I e could get rid of those tracks”

“We don’t have a way,” Sae look like a drunken joyride” They got into the car, and Sam picked up the eerprints, and tossed it on the ground Then he drove up and down the field, turning and looping, backing up,a random set of shapes that were not concentrated in one part of the field Then he buhway that ran parallel to the river

As dawn approached, Rean to rain “I’lad we didn’t have to contend with that,” she said The rain grely to a steady, strong downpour, and Sa the mud and dirt from the rental car When they reached a spot where they could park unseen close to the Mincio, they stopped and du to take a picture of the spot,” said Remi “Once it isn’t a threat to our lives, we’ll come back one day for the tablet and donate it to a museum” When she had her pictures, they drove on