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Pitt laughed "He overdoses on Indiana Jones movies"

"Give me a hard time," said Giordino sadly "You'll be sorry someday"

"I hope it's not soon"

"Hoide is the opening?" asked Rodgers

"Dr Kelsey h on her hands and knees, but we boys will have to snake our way in"

Shannon peered over the edge at the bottom of the fissure "The Chachapoyas and the Incas could never have hauled several tons of gold up steep cliffs and then lowered it through a rat hole They e somewhere around the base of the mountain above the ancient waterline"

"You could waste years looking for it," said Rodgers

"It must be buried under landslides and the erosion of almost five centuries"

"I'll bet the Incas sealed it off by causing a cave-in," Pitt ventured

Shannon was not about to allow theinto dark recesses was her specialty She eagerly slipped down the rope as smoothly as if she did it twice a day and crawled into the narrow aperture in the rock Rodgers went next, followed by Giordino, with Pitt bringing up the rear

Giordino turned to Pitt "If I get caught in a cave-in, you will dig me out"

"Not before I dial nine-one-one"

Shannon and Rodgers had alreadythe second Deht up to them

Shannon was peering at the es on this sculpture are better preserved than those on the first demon"