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down
further and further and disappeared into the gloom. They never did see or hear
of the lion again. At first they thought they had stumbled onto some old
Spanish mine workings. But there was no sign anywhere of a dump that always
goes with a mine. By all rights there should have been some sign of the earth
and rock that had come out of that hole--but there wasn't.
When they inspected the hole itself more
closely, they were amazed at its symmetry and of the constancy of the section
of the bore as far as they could see down it. The fact that the bore was
perfectly round puzzled them, too.
If it was a mine shaft, it most certainly
wouldn't have been round, but instead would have been flat on the bottom. The
fact that the shaft extended straight and unwavering as a rigid pipe was cause
for further amazement. Since the fellows had no rope with them, which would
have been needed to descend the shaft, as well as lights, they scratched their
heads awhile and then left.
Finley wanted to go back with equipment and
see how far down the shaft went and what was at the bottom of it. But ranchers
are busy people and he never went back. In the meantime he got pretty well
broken up when a
horse threw him and he now lives in
Finley told me this story about a year
before even you heard of Shaver so you can be sure he wasn't influenced by the
"Shaver 'Mystery" ...In fact, I don't believe he has ever heard of
the "Shaver Mystery," even to this day. --- E.
Brown.,
