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"Don't get excited," said Garza seriously "Saed them with acid and the sun"

He didn't fabricate them," Sandecker said flatly

Garza regarded him with skeptical interest "How can you say that, Adulf"

"There is now"

That's news to me"

"'The event occurred in the year AD 391," explained Pitt "A fleet of ships ed up the Rio Grande to where Roma now stands Somewhere, in one of the hills behind town, Royptian scholars buried a vast collection of artifacts froypt '

"I knew it!" burst Sam Trinity from the open doorway He was so excited he al "By glory, I knew it! The Romans really walked the soil of Texas"

"You've been right, Sa"

I-All these years no one believed me," Sam muttered dazedly "Even after they read the stone, they accusedthe inscription myself"

"Stone, what stone?" Pitt asked sharply

"The one standing over in the corner I had it translated at Texas A and M, but all they told me was, 'Nice job, Sam Your Latin ain't half bad" They've kiddedup a firstrate fish story"

"Is there a copy of the translatedin a glassed frame I cut off the part where they panned it"

Lily peered at the wording and read it aloud as the others crowded around her

"This stone reat Hall of the Muses

"I escaped the slaughter of our fleet by the barban'ans and made my way south, where I was accepted by a prie and a prophet