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"If they're still alive, they should be on the surface"

Moore looked around the cavern and saw that Auardians fro the caverns as bare as when the Incas found the of value was to be left

"We've got a detailed inventory," he said to Micki "Let's be on our way"

The Moores hitched a ride on a sled stacked with golden ani area

When they caht, they searched the summit, but Loren Smith and Rudi Gunn were nowhere to be found

By then, it was too late for the Moores to reenter the mountain

Loren shivered Tattered clothing was no protection against the cool dampness of the cavern Gunn put his arive The tiny cell-like chamber that was their prison was little more than a wide crack in the limestone There was no room to stand up, and whenever they tried to move about to find a coun butt at the

After the two sections of the golden chain had been brought through the passageway, Amaru forced them frouardian's crypt Unknown to the Moores, Loren and Rudi had been imprisoned before the scientists made their way out of the treasure cavern

"We would appreciate a drink of water," Loren told the guard

He turned and looked at her blankly He was an appalling figure, enormous, with an entirely repulsive face, thick lips, flat nose, and one eye The eliness of Quasimodo

This time when Loren shivered it wasn't frohout her half-naked body She knew that to show audacity er cared "Water, you drooling iua?"

He gave her a cruel look and slowly vanished from their narrow line of vision In a few minutes he returned and tossed a military canteen of water into the cave

"I think you've made a friend," said Gunn

"If he thinks he's getting a kiss on the first date," said Loren, twisting off the cap of the canteen, "he's got another think co"

She offered Gunn a drink, but he shook his head "Ladies first"