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“Sam?” Selma whispered “The website”

“Oh, that’s right,” said Sam “This is Selma Wondrash, our chief researcher” He nodded to her

Sel the co of all the artifacts in each of the treasure hoards and the toraphs of all of the items inside the treasure chambers in the positions where they were found, as well as close-up pictures made under museum conditions From time to time, as scholarly articles about them are produced, the articles will be added to the site We also expect to reproduce this information in a book, under the editorship of Professor Albrecht Fischer”

The reporters all dutifully wrote dohat they were told and then joined in the celebra

tion The party went on late into the night When Captain Boiardi and his men had packed the sample artifacts into their locked cases, they prepared to leave

“Sam, Remi,” he said “The neill be in every major newspaper in the world to online editions coot to take the last of the treasure and transport it to the museum”

“Do you have to go so soon?” Remi asked

“The longer ait, the erous it will be Ancient treasures capture people’s iood way In the 1920s, Tut’s toer This is Attila” The captain grinned, kissed Rereat pleasure, and the greatest accomplishment of my career”

“It has been for us too,” Remi said “I hope you didn’t ”

“If you don’t retire, I won’t,” he said “I want to see what else you can find”

“We’ll call you,” said Sam

The Carabinieri left the hotel, and then the reporters and photographers Soon the only ones left in the banquet room were Albrecht, Sam and Remi, Tibor and János, Selainst a cha Everyone stopped talking and looked in his direction “All right, everyone We’ve had a great party Now Reet some sleep Please meet us in the lobby downstairs at nine a to take us to the airport We’re giving you a ride home”

As they walked lazily to their suite, Re everybody home on a rented jet?”

Saed “Selma, Pete, and Wendy live at our house and we’d have to pay their airfare anyway Tibor and János saved our lives at least twice each And Albrecht invited us to be part of one of the great treasure hunts of all time It’s just two stops”

“I don’t want to sound like an ingrate and a shalloo time since I’ve been alone with my husband when I didn’t have a shovel inat us”