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   Bill said, "It sure is."  Jack stirred sugar into his coffee and sat down at the table again. Bill asked, "Did you ever bring anything out of the cave?”

   “Twice," said Fred Thomason.  Both times we went in we filled our pockets with gems, and carried out a gold bar apiece.  The first time we left the stuff with a friend of ours and went to try and interest someone in what we'd found. We thought, the scientists would be interested or the government.  One government man said he'd like to see the stuff and we went back to our friend to get the gold and jewels and he told us he'd never seen them; and dared us to try to get them back.  You see, he double crossed us. We were in a little trouble at the time and the loss of that stuff just put us in deeper. We couldn’t get a stake because we were having hard work making anyone believe us. So we made another trip out here for more proof.