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Zolar and Oxleythere were over a thousand collectors on their client list ere eagerly waiting to purchase portions of the golden artifacts at premium prices

"Ten million," Cortina repeated stubbornly

Sarason kept up the pretense of hard bargaining "That's a lot of money," he protested

"Protecting you froents is only half our involvement,"

Cortina reminded him "Without Colonel Caold to your transfer site in the Altar Desert, you would end up with nothing"

"And without our involvement in the discovery, you would too," said Sarason

Corona spread his hands indifferently "I cannot deny that we need each other But I strongly believe it would be in your best interests to be generous"

Sarason looked at his brothers Zolar gave a barely perceptible nod After a estured in apparent defeat "We knoe have a losing hand

Consider yourselves another ten million dollars richer"

The maximum load the winch could toas five tons, so Huascar's chain was to be cut in the ed out in two pieces The soldiers of the Mexican engineering battalion would then fashion a raft from boards requisitioned from the nearest lumber yard to ferry the main olden throne proved too heavy for the raft Once Huascar's chain was pulled to the mountain peak, the winch cable was to be carried back down and attached to a harness wrapped around the throne After sending a signal topside, it would be winched across the river bottoineers, aided by Amaru's men, planned to muscle it onto a sled for the final journey from the heart of the mountain Once out of the mountain, all of the artifacts would be loaded aboard vessels the Inca artisans who created the golden masterworks could never have visualized birds that fleithout wings, known in modern times as helicopters

On the island of treasure, Micki Moore busily catalogued and recorded descriptions of the pieces while Henry raphed the thein a hurry, an effort that reduced the solden antiquities at an incredible rate What had taken the Incas and Chachapoyas six days to cache inside the mountain, modern equipment was about to remove in ten hours

She moved close to her husband and whispered, "I can't do this"

He looked at her

Her eyes seehts brought in by the engineers "I don't want any of the gold"