PEACE: Gold hunt's end at the box in the hole

StoneOx17 · 30 Oct 2002, 18:20 · from urth-v0210.mbox · original

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From: StoneOx17 at aol.com
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE: Gold hunt's end at the box in the hole
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:20:07 -0500
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Mantis writes, about the hole Weer dug with=20
Lois (at the end of the Gold Hunt):

> But the fact remains that the diggers seem to=20
> have hit a container of some kind: if it was=20
> not the strongbox, then the next most likely=20
> item would be a coffin.  In order to be sure=20
> that it was not a strongbox with gold, they
> had to excavate enough to determine its size.

If I remember correctly, this section is next to
to the Bell Witch section, with the porch step=20
"tombstone."

I had assumed that they found a flat stone shaped=20
roughly like the top of a treasure box, which Weer=20
then used as a tombstone when he buried Lois in=20
the hole they dug. =20

Mantis presciently disagrees:
> (I don't think he kills her, even though there=20
> is a ready-dug grave right there.)

The fact that earlier, Lois said that she wasn't=20
planning on digging up any graves takes on added=20
significance in either case, whether they=20
discover a coffin or whether Weer kills her. =20

Stone Ox

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