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"True, an event that was inconceivable at the time"

As Chaco spoke, his euar that was dug up in the valley of the dead Finally he said quietly, "I'll arrange for our hired mercenaries from the Peruvian army to drop in the Pueblo de los Muertos by helicopter within two hours"

"Do you have confidence in the co officer to do the job?"

Chaco smiled to himself "If I can't trust my own brother, who can I trust?"

"I never believed in resurrection ofdown at the pool of cri to the floor of the valley "But this is as good an example as I've ever seen"

"He was dead," Rodgers said e as close to hih his heart Blood was everywhere You saw hi here There can be no doubt in your mind Doc was a corpse"

"I didn't take the time to do a postmortem examination"

"Okay, but how do you explain the trail of blood from the interior chamber where Doc was shot?

There allon of it spread from here to there"

"Closer to a pint," said Pitt thoughtfully "You exaggerate"

"How long would you guess the body rested here frouard and then released the students who arrived and tied hiers

"Four, maybe five minutes at the outside"

"And within that time a sixty-seven-year-old dead man bounds doo hundred tiny, narrow, niched steps laid on a seventy-five-degree angle Steps that can't be taken , and then he vanishes without shedding another drop of blood" Rodgers shook his head

"Houdini would have flushed with envy"

"Are you sure it was Doc Miller?" Pitt asked pensively