Farm

Farm

Back at the farm, Linc unloaded the truck while Lucas and Angel
decided to take a nap.
Trudy told him the Sherriff had been trying to contact him and he told
her they had met in town. He put the dog food and dishes in the
laundry room, out of the way, then went into the office. He called
his old teacher and told him about the boxes he had sent.
He called Uncle Vernon to see if they got the old ZCMI building, and
found that they did and were now making rooms for the exhibits and
updating the security of the building. They hoped to be ready to
transfer the exhibits in December. Linc hoped so too, because he would
be down there in Provo at Christmas time. Be great if they could get
it all done then.

He called Lewis to see if Axel had got the Chinese off his back, and
found out he was so far, free of the bugs and spies. Linc told him
that it would be a very good ides for him to go file claims, in his,
his Mother and Lincs name's , on the old mine where he found the
rocks.. And keep quiet about the fact that they were anti magnetic.
Lewis said he had thought about it but wondered what Linc would think.
Now that he knew, he would do it as soon as he could. It was a good
ides to take care of it now.

On the computer, he tried to find out something about the enameled
box on line but got nowhere there.
Tried to research on the diamonds. If they were famous stones, or
something, like stolen, or missing, he could find nothing about them.
He just had a mystery on his hands for sure there.

He heard Angel whimper, so he got up from the computer and took her
outside. She did a lot of sniffing around before she found just the
place to go.

Back inside, he found John sitting in the living room, and sat down to
talk to him when Trudy brought in a tray with coffee and sat it in
front of them. Just as she was pouring each of them cups, Lucas made
his appearance too.
After they all got settled with their coffee, Linc told them what had
happened up at the mine, and told them he was going up to the cabin
again since Buck had volunteered to send up a big earth mover. Lucas
said to count him out, He had enough of the blasted con-artists crap.
He would stay home and watch Angel, so Linc didn't have to worry about
her.

After breakfast the next morning, Trudy fixed a lunch for Linc who put
it in the truck with his back pack, and drove on up to the cabin. He
left the gate open so the guy Buck was sending up with a big machine,
could get in ok.
He went into the old tunnel, checked on the seep and found it was
still stopped. He got all the tools and the gas light, closed and
locked the tunnel back up. He took the tools over to the lean- to
shed by the cabin and put them there. He saw they had forgotten to
take the big propane tank off the BBQ. After putting the lantern in
the cabin, making a small fire and putting on a pot of coffee to perk,
he went out and took the tank off the BBQ and stowed it in the back of
the truck.
He then went to the creek and got a bucket of water.
Back in the cabin, he poured a cup of coffee Put the rest in the thermos, put
Water in the dishpan and put it on the stove to heat for clean up,
then went and sat in the sunshine, taking a cup and the thermos with
him.

The guy Buck sent over game in and got off the machine. Said, 'Hi
there, I'm Jim. Lets see what has to be done". Linc poured a cup
of coffee from the thermos, handed it to him, and said, "It's over
this way.' They drank their coffee as Linc explained about the
tunnel and the trench.

Jim climbed back on the machine, and in no time he had buried the
trench and piled so many rocks up against the adit, no one could begin
to see it. He took most of the old mine tailings and made a berm on
the road leading up to the tunnel as well.
Jim told Linc if he wanted, he would get some of the big boulders over
at the base of the hill and put them on the trench. He might even
want to add a fire pit to further confuse anyone looking for it.
Linc liked the idea, so Jim brought six large rocks over and placed
them in a wide circle with room in the middle for Linc to make a fire
pit from rocks from the tailings berm in the road. Linc told him
thanks a lot, and Jim took off down the road, back to his job at the
mine.

Linc put on some gloves and made a nice big fire pit in the middle of
the rock circle. Right on top of the buried trench. He laughed when
he thought about those darn snoops coming back and looking for it.
Might not be until next year, since winter was coming pretty soon now.

He poured out the rest of the coffee in his cup and got his lunch out
and ate it with the help of a couple of squirrels

Back in the cabin he washed the coffee pot and cups with water he had
heating on the small fire. It was almost cold, but did the job ok.

He put things away, locked the cabin and as he walked toward the
truck, he looked over at the new fire pit and saw a blue glow.
Oh boy! , Now what? He got his pack from the truck and entered the portal.

To be continued.