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Pull on this line and I guarantee you'll change your mind"

"You attached the other end?" she challenged him "To what?"

"A set of bonesas a Spanish conquistador"

"You're beyond belief," she said helplessly

It was a long time since a woman had stared at him like that "Do you think I'm a head case? Do you think I enjoy this? I da your backside Okay, you want to die and be buried in a thousand bits and pieces, enjoy the trip"

Uncertainty crept into her expression "You're notsense"

"Perhaps a little deently pulled in the line until it becaave it a hard jerk

For aca treh the li The underwater blast ca colureen sli everyone and everything standing within 20 meters (66

feet) of the edge The thunder of the explosion rolled over the jungle as the spray fell back into the sinkhole, leaving a heavy mist that swirled into the sky and temporarily blocked out the sun

Shannon stood half-drenched and stared down into her beloved sacred well as if she couldn't make up her e stood like statues suddenly frozen in shock Only Pitt looked as though he'd witnessed an everyday event

Fading inco appeared in Shannon's eyes

"How in God's name did you know"

"That there was a booby trap?" Pitt finished "No great deduction Whoever buried a good forty-five kilograh explosive under the skeleton made two major mistakes One, why clean out every antiquity but the most obvious? And two, the bones couldn't have been h to have been underwater for four centuries"

"Who would have done such a thing?" asked Rodgers dazedly

"The same man who murdered Doc Miller," answered Pitt