"Is it all right with Mom?"
"Uh-huh. I fixed it."
"She told you about the cave and the box?"
"Just mentioned it in passing. Told me to get the details from you."
He picked her up and carried her out front where they sat down side by side on the front steps and looked out across the miserable little desert town. Dan's eyes fell on the tavern front over near the depot. There would be at least half a dozen drunks in there and after sundown there would be foremen from the ranches roundabout talking them into going back to work.
"The cave wasn't there before."
"It wasn't?"
"No. It's the place I always played Roy Rogers, but I went there yesterday and there was a door in the rock."
"The door was open?"
"Wide open. I went inside and there was a big shiny box in there."