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Show Flying - 89 far to the north. "Do you know what those are?" he says to John Henry. "No, sir." "Those are the Superstition Mountains. The Lost Dutchman gold- mine is in there somewhere. They say it's one of the richest ever found." "How come nobody's mining it, then?" says John Henry. "It's lost," says Wilberforce. But John Henry is skeptical about the legends of the Old West. "Seems like all you'd have to do is go in there and look. I mean if it's really there, don't you think someone would have found it by now, sir?" "It's not that easy," says Wilberforce. "People who go in there often just disappear. Or sometimes search parties find their bodies. They found one couple last year lying in their campsite with their heads torn off. I read about it in Newsweek," says the lieutenant. Far ahead a figure stands alone by the side of the road and John Henry begins to be afraid that it will be Tex standing there with his head torn off. But Tex, who didn't show up in New Mexico, doesn't appear to be in Arizona either, and the figure is an ordinary hitch-hiker, a college student with a University of Arizona pennant on his suitcase. "What could have torn their heads off like that?" says John Henry. |