The Annihilators
“They did it every day. Without letting on that I’d seen them, I hoisted the big camera bag onto the table, pretty well preempting that side of it, and took out of it a small notebook.
“I’d better write that down, Dr. Dillman,” I said. “You say this temple faces east and west? Which is the better side of it?”
“The west side of the Temple of Ixchal faces the Great Court and is really quite remarkable… All right, Sam. They’ve gone. You’re a brute to spoil their fun, the poor old dears.”
“Poor old ...dears, hell. That Tolson woman has a tongue like a Borgia dagger.” I regarded her for a moment. “So what you found was a nice modern ammunition dump some fifty feet underground—5.56 mm, that’s the .223 stuff they use in the Ml6s.”
She nodded soberly. “And not just ammunition. There were larger crates, too, and long nasty-looking things wrapped in plastic—rocket launchers or something. We learned later that there was another entrance to the cave. You just climbed straight down into a deep sinkhole and came across through the rock about a hundred feet—they’d enlarged the narrow tunnel they’d found there, originally just a crack in the limestone, to the point where they could actually use carts and dollies and wheelbarrows to trundle the stuff inside after it was lowered into the sinkhole by a truck winch.MoreLess
“I’d better write that down, Dr. Dillman,” I said. “You say this temple faces east and west? Which is the better side of it?”
“The west side of the Temple of Ixchal faces the Great Court and is really quite remarkable… All right, Sam. They’ve gone. You’re a brute to spoil their fun, the poor old dears.”
“Poor old ...dears, hell. That Tolson woman has a tongue like a Borgia dagger.” I regarded her for a moment. “So what you found was a nice modern ammunition dump some fifty feet underground—5.56 mm, that’s the .223 stuff they use in the Ml6s.”
She nodded soberly. “And not just ammunition. There were larger crates, too, and long nasty-looking things wrapped in plastic—rocket launchers or something. We learned later that there was another entrance to the cave. You just climbed straight down into a deep sinkhole and came across through the rock about a hundred feet—they’d enlarged the narrow tunnel they’d found there, originally just a crack in the limestone, to the point where they could actually use carts and dollies and wheelbarrows to trundle the stuff inside after it was lowered into the sinkhole by a truck winch.MoreLess
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