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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Hohokam Dig + +Author: Theodore Pratt + +Release Date: August 24, 2009 [EBook #29793] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOHOKAM DIG *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="bk1"><p><small><i>From</i> where <i>had these attacking Indians come? Out of a long forgotten +and dim past? Had their medicine man seen the one supreme vision?</i></small></p></div> + +<div class="bk2"><h1><b>the<br /> +hohokam<br /> +dig</b></h1> + +<h2><small><i>by ... Theodore Pratt</i></small></h2> + +<p class="pr1"><big><b>At first they thought the attack was a +joke. And then they realized the truth!</b></big></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="smcap">At first</span> the two scientists +thought the Indian attack on them +was a joke perpetrated by some of +their friends. After all, modern +Indians did not attack white men +any more.</p> + +<p>Except that these did.</p> + +<p>George Arthbut and Sidney Hunt +were both out of New York, on +the staff of the Natural History +Museum. George was an ethnologist +who specialized in what could +be reconstructed about the prehistoric +Indians of North America, +with emphasis on those of the +Southwest. He was a tall, lean, +gracious bald man in his early +sixties.</p> + +<p>Sidney was an archeologist who +was fascinated by the ruins of the +same kind of ancient Indians. +Medium-sized, with black hair that +belied his sixty-five years, he and +George made an excellent team, +being the leaders in their field.</p> + +<p>They had come west on a particular +bit of business this spring, trying +to solve the largest question +that remained about the old cliff dwellers +and the prehistoric desert +Indians, both of whom had deserted +their villages and gone elsewhere +for reasons that remained a +mystery.</p> + +<p>One theory was that drought had +driven them both away. Another +theory ran to the effect that enemies +wiped them out or made off with +them as captives. Still another supposition, +at least for the Hohokam +desert people, the builders of Casa +Grande whose impressive ruins still +stood near Coolidge, had to do with +their land giving out so they could +no longer grow crops, forcing them +to go elsewhere to find better soil.</p> + +<p>No one really knew. It was all +pure guesswork.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The two scientists meant to spend +the entire summer trying to solve +this riddle for all time, concentrating +on it to the exclusion of everything +else. They drove west in a +station wagon stuffed with equipment +and tracking a U-Haul-It +packed with more.</p> + +<p>George drove, on a road that was +only two sand tracks across the wild +empty desert between Casa Grande +Monument and Tonto National +Monument where cliff dwellers had +lived. It was here, not far ahead, +in new ruins that were being excavated, +that they hoped to solve +the secret of the exodus of the +prehistoric Indians. The place was +known as the Hohokam Dig.</p> + +<p>They topped a rise of ground +and came to the site of the dig. +Here the sand tracks ended right +in the middle of long trenches dug +out to reveal thick adobe walls. In +the partially bared ruins the outline +of a small village could be seen; +the detailed excavation would be +done this summer by workmen who +would arrive from Phoenix and +Tucson.</p> + +<p>George stopped their caravan and +the two men got out, stretching +their legs. They looked about, both +more interested in the dig, now +they were back at it, than setting +up camp. They walked around, examining +various parts of it, and the +excitement of the promise of things +to be discovered in the earth came +to them. "This summer we'll learn +the answer," Sidney predicted.</p> + +<p>With skeptical hope George +replied, "Maybe."</p> + +<p>It was early afternoon when they +set up camp, getting out their tent +from the U-Haul-It. They took out +most of their gear, even setting up +a portable TV set run on batteries +brought along. They worked efficiently +and rapidly, having done +this many times before and having +their equipment well organized +from long experience. By the middle +of the afternoon all was ready +and they rested, sitting on folding +chairs at a small table just outside +the opening of their tent.</p> + +<p>Looking around at the dig Sidney +remarked, "Wouldn't it be easy +if we could talk to some of the +people who once lived here?"</p> + +<p>"There's a few questions I'd like +to ask them," said George. "I certainly +wish we had some to talk +with."</p> + +<p>He had no more than uttered +this casual wish than there sounded, +from all sides of where they sat, +screeching whoops. The naked +brown men who suddenly appeared +seemed to materialize from right +out of the excavations. As they +yelled they raised their weapons. +The air was filled, for an instant, +with what looked like long arrows. +Most of them whistled harmlessly +past the two scientists, but one hit +the side of the station wagon, making +a resounding thump and leaving +a deep dent, while two buried +themselves in the wood of the +U-Haul-It and remained there, +quivering.</p> + +<p>George and Sidney, after the +shock of their first surprise at this +attack, leaped to their feet.</p> + +<p>"The car!" cried Sidney. "Let's +get out of here!"</p> + +<p>They both started to move. Then +George stopped and grabbed Sidney's +arm. "Wait!"</p> + +<p>"Wait?" Sidney demanded. +"They'll kill us!"</p> + +<p>"Look," advised George, indicating +the red men who surrounded +them; they now made no further +move of attack.</p> + +<p>George gazed about. "Oh," he +said, "you think somebody's playing +a joke on us?"</p> + +<p>"Could be," said George. He ran +one hand over his bald head.</p> + +<p>"Some dear friends," Sidney +went on, resenting the scare that +had been thrown into them, "hired +some Indians to pretend to attack +us?"</p> + +<p>"Maybe Pimas," said George. +He peered at the Indians, who now +were jabbering among themselves +and making lamenting sounds as +they glanced about at the ruins of +the ancient village. There were +eighteen of them. They were clad +in nothing more than a curious +cloth of some kind run between +their legs and up and over a cord +about their waists, to form a short +apron, front and back.</p> + +<p>"Or Zunis," said Sidney.</p> + +<p>"Maybe Maricopas," said +George.</p> + +<p>"Except," Sidney observed, +"none of them look like those kind +of Indians. And those arrows they +shot." He stared at the two sticking +in the U-Haul-It. "Those aren't +arrows, George—they're atlatl +lances!"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said George.</p> + +<p>Sidney breathed, "They aren't +holding bows—they've got atlatls!"</p> + +<p>"No modern Indian of any +kind," said George, "uses an +atlatl."</p> + +<p>"Most of them wouldn't even +know what it was," Sidney agreed. +"They haven't been used for hundreds +of years; the only place you +see them is in museums."</p> + +<p>An atlatl was the weapon which +had replaced the stone axe in the +stone age. It was a throwing stick +consisting of two parts. One was +the lance, a feathered shaft up to +four feet long, tipped with a stone +point. The two-foot flat stick that +went with this had a slot in one +end and two rawhide finger loops. +The lance end was fitted in the slot +to be thrown. The stick was an extension +of the human arm to give +the lance greater force. Some atlatls +had small charm stones attached to +them to give them extra weight and +magic.</p> + +<p>Charm stones could be seen fastened +to a few of the atlatls being +held by the Indians now standing +like bronze statues regarding them.</p> + +<p>George whispered, "What do you +make of it?"</p> + +<p>"It isn't any joke," replied Sidney. +He gazed tensely at the Indians. +"That's all I'm sure of."</p> + +<p>"Have you noticed their breechclouts?"</p> + +<p>Sidney stared again. "They aren't +modern clouts. George, they're +right out of Hohokam culture!"</p> + +<p>"They aren't made of cloth, +either. That's plaited yucca fibre."</p> + +<p>"Just like we've dug up many +times. Only here ..." George faltered. +"It's being worn by—by I +don't know what."</p> + +<p>"Look at their ornaments."</p> + +<p>Necklaces, made of pierced +colored stones, hung about many +of the brown necks. Shell bracelets +were to be seen, and here and there +a carved piece of turquoise +appeared.</p> + +<p>"Look at the Indian over there," +George urged.</p> + +<p>Sidney looked to the side where +George indicated, and croaked, +"It's a girl!"</p> + +<p>It was a girl indeed. She stood +straight and magnificent in body +completely bare except for the brief +apron at her loins. Between her +beautiful full copper breasts there +hung a gleaming piece of turquoise +carved in the shape of a coyote.</p> + +<p>At her side stood a tall young +Indian with a handsome face set +with great pride. On her other side +was a wizened little old fellow with +a wrinkled face and ribs corrugated +like a saguaro.</p> + +<p>Sidney turned back and demanded, +"What do you make of this? +Are we seeing things?" Hopefully, +he suggested, "A mirage or sort +of a mutual hallucination?"</p> + +<p>In a considered, gauging tone +George replied, "They're real."</p> + +<p>"Real?" cried Sidney. "What do +you mean, real?"</p> + +<p>"Real in a way. I mean, Sidney, +these—I sound crazy to myself saying +it—but I think these are—well, +Sid, maybe they're actual prehistoric +Indians."</p> + +<p>"Huh?"</p> + +<p>"Well, let's put it this way: We +asked for them and we got them."</p> + +<p>Sidney stared, shocked at George's +statement. "You're crazy, all right," +he said. "Hohokams in the middle +of the Twentieth Century?"</p> + +<p>"I didn't say they're Hohokams, +though they probably are, of the +village here."</p> + +<p>"You said they're prehistoric," +Sidney accused. He quavered, "Just +how could they be?"</p> + +<p>"Sid, you remember in our Indian +studies, again and again, we +meet the medicine man who has +visions. Even modern ones have +done things that are pretty impossible +to explain. I believe they have +spiritual powers beyond the capability +of the white man. The prehistoric +medicine men may have +developed this power even more. I +think the old man there is their +medicine man."</p> + +<p>"So?" Sidney invited.</p> + +<p>"I'm just supposing now, mind +you," George went on. He rubbed +his bald pate again as though afraid +of what thoughts were taking place +under it. "Maybe way back—a +good many hundreds of years ago—this +medicine man decided to have +a vision of the future. And it +worked. And here he is now with +some of his people."</p> + +<p>"Wait a minute," Sidney objected. +"So he had this vision and +transported these people to this moment +in time. But if it was hundreds +of years ago they're already +dead, been dead for a long time, +so how could they—"</p> + +<p>"Don't you see, Sid? They can +be dead, but their appearance in the +future—for them—couldn't occur +until now because it's happened +with us and we weren't living and +didn't come along here at the right +time until this minute."</p> + +<p>Sidney swallowed. "Maybe," he +muttered, "maybe."</p> + +<p>"Another thing," George said. +"If we can talk with them we can +learn everything we've tried to +know in all our work and solve in +a minute what we're ready to spend +the whole summer, even years, +digging for."</p> + +<p>Sidney brightened. "That's what +we wanted to do."</p> + +<p>George studied the Indians +again. "I think they're just as surprised +as we are. When they discovered +themselves here and saw +us—and you must remember we're +the first white men they've ever +seen—their immediate instinct was +to attack. Now that we don't fight +back they're waiting for us to make +a move."</p> + +<p>"What do we do?"</p> + +<p>"Take it easy," advised George. +"Don't look scared and don't look +belligerent. Look friendly and hope +some of the modern Indian dialects +we know can make connection with +them."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The two scientists began, at a +gradual pace, to make their way +toward the old man, the young +man, and the girl. As they approached, +the girl drew back slightly. +The young man reached over +his shoulder and from the furred +quiver slung on his back drew an +atlatl lance and fitted it to his +throwing stick, holding it ready. +The other warriors, all about, followed +suit.</p> + +<p>The medicine man alone stepped +forward. He held up a short colored +stick to which bright feathers +were attached and shook it at the +two white men. They stopped.</p> + +<p>"That's his aspergill," observed +Sidney. "I'd like to have that one."</p> + +<p>The medicine man spoke. At first +the scientists were puzzled, then +George told Sidney, "That's Pima, +or pretty close to it, just pronounced +differently. It probably +shows we were right in thinking +the Pimas descended from these +people. He wants to know who we +are."</p> + +<p>George gave their names. The +medicine man replied, "The man +who has white skin instead of red +speaks our language in a strange +way. I am Huk." He turned to the +young man at his side and said, +"This is Good Fox, our young +chief." He indicated the girl. "That +is Moon Water, his wife."</p> + +<p>George explained what he and +the other white man with him were +doing here. Huk, along with all +the other Indians, including Good +Fox and Moon Water, listened intently; +they seemed greatly excited +and disturbed.</p> + +<p>When George was finished Good +Fox turned to Huk and said, "You +have succeeded, wise one, in bringing +us forward, far in the future +to the time of these men with white +skins."</p> + +<p>"This is the truth," said the +wrinkled Huk; he did not boast +but rather seemed awed.</p> + +<p>Moon Water spoke in a frightened +tone. She looked about at the +partially excavated ruins and asked, +"But what has happened to our +village?" She faltered, "Is this the +way it will look in the future?"</p> + +<p>"It is the way," Good Fox informed +her sorrowfully.</p> + +<p>"I weep for our people," she +said. "I do not want to see it." +She hung her pretty face over her +bare body, then, in a moment, +raised it resolutely.</p> + +<p>Good Fox shook the long scraggly +black hair away from his eyes +and told the white men, "We did +not mean to harm you. We did not +know what else to do upon finding +you here and our village buried."</p> + +<p>Ignoring that in his excited interest, +Sidney asked, "What year +are you?"</p> + +<p>"Year?" asked Good Fox. +"What is this word?"</p> + +<p>Both Sidney and George tried +to get over to him what year meant +in regard to a date in history, but +Good Fox, Huk, and Moon Water, +and none of the others could understand.</p> + +<p>"We do not know what you +mean," Huk said. "We know only +that we live here in this village—not +as you see it now—but one +well built and alive with our people. +As the medicine man I am +known to have extra power and +magic in visions. Often I have +wondered what life would be like +in the far future. With this group +I conjured up a vision of it, carrying +them and myself to what is +now here before us."</p> + +<p>George and Sidney glanced at +each other. George's lips twitched +and those of Sidney trembled. +George said softly to the Indians, +"Let us be friends." He explained +to them what they were doing here. +"We are trying to find out what you +were—are—like. Especially what +made you desert people leave your +villages."</p> + +<p>They looked blank. Huk said, +"But we have not left—except in +this vision."</p> + +<p>In an aside to George, Sidney +said, "That means we've caught +them before they went south or +wherever they went." He turned +back to Huk. "Have the cliff people +yet deserted their dwellings?"</p> + +<p>Huk nodded solemnly. "They +have gone. Some of them have +joined us here, and more have gone +to other villages."</p> + +<p>"We have read that into the remains +of your people, especially at +Casa Grande," Sidney told him. +With rising excitement in his voice +he asked, "Can you tell us why they +left?"</p> + +<p>Huk nodded. "This I can do."</p> + +<p>Now the glance of Sidney and +George at each other was quick, +their eyes lighting.</p> + +<p>"I'll take it down on the typewriter," +Sidney said. "Think of it! +Now we'll know."</p> + +<p>He led Huk to the table set in +front of the tent, where he brought +out a portable typewriter and opened +and set it up. He sat on one +chair, and Huk, gingerly holding +his aspergill before him as though +to protect himself, sat on the other.</p> + +<p>Good Fox, Moon Water and the +other Indians crowded about, curious +to see the machine that came +alive under Sidney's fingers as Huk +began to relate his story. Soon their +interest wandered in favor of other +things about the two men with +white skin. They wanted to know +about the machine with four legs.</p> + +<p>George opened up the hood of +the station wagon and showed them +the engine. He sat in the car and +started the motor. At the noise the +Indians jumped back, alarmed, and +reaching for their atlatls. Moon +Water approached the rear end of +the car. Her pretty nose wrinkled +at the fumes coming from it and +she choked, drawing back in disgust. +"It is trying to kill me," she +said.</p> + +<p>Clearly, she did not approve of +an automobile.</p> + +<p>George cut off its engine.</p> + +<p>Over Good Fox's shoulder hung +a small clay water jug hung in a +plaited yucca net. George asked for +a drink from it and when he tasted +it and found it fresh it was wondrous +to him that its water was +hundreds of years old. He brought +out a thermos, showing the Indians +the modern version of carrying +water. They tasted of its contents +and exclaimed at its coolness. Good +Fox held the thermos, admiring it.</p> + +<p>"Would you like to have it?" +asked George.</p> + +<p>"You would give it to me?" the +handsome young Indian asked.</p> + +<p>"It's yours."</p> + +<p>"Then I give you mine." He +gave George his clay water jug and +could not know how much more +valuable it was than the thermos.</p> + +<p>George then took them to the +portable television set and turned +it on. When faces, music, and +words appeared the Indians jerked +back, then jabbered and gathered +closer to watch. A girl singer, clad +in a gown that came up to her +neck, caused Moon Water to inquire, +"Why does she hide herself? +Is she ashamed?"</p> + +<p>The standards of modesty, +George reflected as he glanced at +the lovely nude form of the prehistoric +Indian girl, change with +the ages.</p> + +<p>Of the people and noises on the +TV screen Good Fox wanted to +know quite solemnly, "Are these +crazy people? Is it the way you +treat your people who go crazy?"</p> + +<p>George laughed. "You might say +it's something like that."</p> + +<p>A shout came from Sidney at the +card table near the tent where he +was taking down Huk's story. +"George! He's just told me why +the cliff people left! And why the +desert people will have to leave in +time. It's a reason we never thought +of! It's because—"</p> + +<p>Just then a big multi-engined +plane came over, drowning out his +words. The Indians stared skyward, +now in great alarm. They looked +about for a place to run and hide, +but there was none. They held their +hands over their ears and glanced +fearfully at the TV which now +spluttered, its picture and sound +thrown off by the plane. Awesomely, +they waited until the plane went +over.</p> + +<p>"We fly now in machines with +wings," George explained.</p> + +<p>"To make such a noise in the +air," Moon Water said, "is wicked, +destroying all peace."</p> + +<p>"I'll agree with you there," said +George.</p> + +<p>"You have this," Good Fox +observed, indicating the TV, which +was now back to normal, "and you +send the other through the sky to +make it crazier than before." He +shook his head, not comprehending.</p> + +<p>George shut off the TV. He +took up a camera of the kind that +automatically finishes a picture in +a minute's time. Grouping Good +Fox, Moon Water and the other +warriors, he took their picture, +waited, then pulled it out and +showed it to them.</p> + +<p>They cried out, one man shouting +in fear, "It is great magic!"</p> + +<p>George took a number of photographs, +including several of Huk +as he sat talking with Sidney. No +matter what happened he would +have this record as Sidney would +have that he was taking down on +the typewriter.</p> + +<p>Next he showed them a pair of +binoculars, teaching them how to +look through them. They exclaimed +and Good Fox said, "With this we +could see our enemies before they +see us."</p> + +<p>"You have enemies?" George +asked.</p> + +<p>"The Apache," Good Fox said +fiercely.</p> + +<p>George handed him the binoculars. +"It is yours to use against the +Apache."</p> + +<p>Solemnly the young chief answered, +"The man with white skin +is thanked. The red man gives in +return his atlatl and lances." He +held out his throwing stick and +unslung his quiver of lances. +George accepted them with thanks; +they would be museum pieces.</p> + +<p>Finally George showed them a +rifle. He looked about for game +and after some searching saw a +rabbit sitting on a mound in the +excavations. As he took aim Good +Fox asked, "You would hunt it +with your stick?"</p> + +<p>George nodded.</p> + +<p>"This cannot be done from +here," stated one warrior.</p> + +<p>George squeezed the trigger. Instantaneously +with the explosion +of the shell the rabbit jumped high +and then came down, limp and +dead. The Indians yelled with +fright and ran off in all directions. +Huk jumped up from the table. +Then all stopped and cautiously +returned. One went to the rabbit +and picked it up, bringing it back. +All, including Huk who left the +table, stared with fright at it and +at the rifle.</p> + +<p>Moon Water expressed their +opinion of it. "The thunder of the +killing stick is evil."</p> + +<p>"Moon Water speaks the truth," +said Huk.</p> + +<p>"It would make hunting easy," +said Good Fox, "but we do not +want it even if given to us."</p> + +<p>He drew back from the rifle, and +the others edged away from it.</p> + +<p>George put it down.</p> + +<p>Sidney held up a sheaf of papers. +"I've got it all, George," he said +exultantly in English, "right here! +I asked Huk if they can stay with +us in our time, at least for a while. +We can study them more, maybe +even take them back to show the +world."</p> + +<p>"What did he say?"</p> + +<p>"He didn't have a chance to +reply when you shot the rifle."</p> + +<p>George put it formally to the +Indians, addressing Huk, Good +Fox, Moon Water and the rest. +"You have seen something of the +modern world. We would like you +to stay in it if it is your wish. I +don't know how long you could +stay in Huk's vision, but if you can +remain here permanently and not +go back to your time and—well, +not being alive there any more—we +hope you will consider this."</p> + +<p>Huk replied, "It is possible that +we could stay in your time, at least +as long as my vision lasts, which +might be for as long as I lived." +He glanced at Good Fox.</p> + +<p>The young chief in turn looked +at Moon Water. Her gaze went to +the station wagon, to the TV, then +up at the sky where the plane had +appeared, at the rifle, the camera, +the thermos, and all else of the +white man. She seemed to weigh +their values and disadvantages, +looking dubious and doubtful.</p> + +<p>Good Fox announced, "We will +hold a council about it. As is our +custom, all have words to say about +such a thing."</p> + +<p>Abruptly he led his people away, +into the excavations and over a +slight rise of ground, behind which +they disappeared.</p> + +<p>Sidney murmured, "I don't like +that so much."</p> + +<p>"They must do as they want." +George led the way to the card +table and they sat there. On it +rested Huk's aspergill.</p> + +<p>"He gave it to me," Sidney explained.</p> + +<p>George placed Good Fox's netted +clay water jug and his atlatl and +furred quiver of lances on the table, +together with the pictures he had +taken of the ancient Indians. They +waited.</p> + +<p>Sidney, glancing at the low hill +behind which the Indians had gone, +said, "What they're doing is choosing +between living in modern civilization +and remaining dead. What +do you think they'll do?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know," said George. +"They didn't think so much of us."</p> + +<p>"But they couldn't choose death +and complete oblivion!"</p> + +<p>"We'll see."</p> + +<p>They waited some more.</p> + +<p>"At least," said Sidney, indicating +the articles on the table, "we'll +have these for evidence." He held +up the sheaf of papers containing +Huk's story. "And this, giving the +real reason the cliff dwellers left. I +haven't told you what it was, +George. It's so simple that—"</p> + +<p>He didn't complete his sentence, +for just then Huk, Good Fox, +Moon Water, and the other warriors +made their choice. It was +announced dramatically.</p> + +<p>The water jug, the aspergill, and +the atlatl and quiver of lances disappeared +from the table. In their +places, suddenly, there were the +thermos and the binoculars.</p> + +<p>Sidney stared stupidly at them.</p> + +<p>George said quietly, "They've +gone back."</p> + +<p>"But they can't do this!" George +protested.</p> + +<p>"They have."</p> + +<p>Sidney's hand shook as he picked +up the sheaf of papers holding +Huk's story. Indicating it and the +photographs, he said, "Well, they +haven't taken these away."</p> + +<p>"Haven't they?" asked George. +He picked up some of the pictures. +"Look."</p> + +<p>Sidney looked and saw that the +pictures were now blank. His glance +went quickly to the typewritten +sheets of paper in his hands. He +cried out and then shuffled them +frantically.</p> + +<p>They, too, were blank.</p> + +<p>Sidney jumped up. "I don't +care!" he exclaimed. "He told me +and I've got it here!" He pointed +to his head. "I can remember it, +anyway."</p> + +<p>"Can you?" asked George.</p> + +<p>"Why, certainly I can," Sidney +asserted confidently. "The reason +the cliff dwellers left, George, was +that they ..." Sidney stopped.</p> + +<p>"What's the matter, Sid?"</p> + +<p>"Well, I—it—I guess it just +slipped my mind for a second." +His brow puckered. He looked +acutely upset and mystified. "Huk +told me," he faltered. "Just a minute +ago I was thinking of it when +I started to tell you. Now ... I +can't remember."</p> + +<p>"That's gone, too."</p> + +<p>"I'll get it!" Sidney declared. +"I've just forgotten it for a minute. +I'll remember!"</p> + +<p>"No," said George, "you won't."</p> + +<p>Sidney looked around. "There +must be something left." He +thought. "The atlatl lances they +shot at us!" He looked at the +U-Haul-It. The lances no longer +stuck in its side. Nor were those +that had fallen to the ground to +be seen.</p> + +<p>Sidney sat down again, heavily. +"We had it all," he moaned. +"Everything we'd been working for. +And now ..."</p> + +<p>"Now we'll have to dig for it +again," said George. "Do it the +hard way. We'll start tomorrow +when the workmen come."</p> + +<p>Sidney looked up. "There's one +thing!" he cried. "The dent in the +car made by the lance! It's still +there, George! However everything +else worked, that was forgotten. +It's still there!"</p> + +<p>George glanced at the dent in +the side panel of the station wagon. +"It's still there," he agreed. "But +only to tell us this wasn't a dream. +No one else would believe it wasn't +caused by a rock."</p> + +<p>George groaned. He stared at the +rise of ground behind which the +Indians had disappeared. "Huk," +he pleaded. "Good Fox. Moon +Water. The others. Come back, +come back ..."</p> + +<p>No one appeared over the rise +of ground as the cool desert night +began to close in.</p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +This etext was produced from <i>Fantastic Universe</i> November 1956. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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