Lust for Gold Page #2

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Maybe it had directions on it

and he tore it off himself.

Some fellows memorize directions

so that nobody else can use their maps.

Why, half the state has got indigestion

from eating old maps.

You been staying in Phoenix?

- Your things there?

- Well, some of them.

Most everything I own is right on me.

I put my bag in the bus depot

after I checked out of the hotel.

You haven't got a job.

You say you're the Dutchman's grandson.

You tail a guy you thought was holding out

on you. He gets knocked off.

Ray, you'd better take him out

to the mountain tomorrow.

Let him show you

just how he spent those three days.

Walter, you'd better go along with them.

How long after the shot

before you found him?

Ten to fifteen minutes.

Maybe longer. He was still warm.

- You didn't see anybody else?

- No.

What were your plans

if Buckley had found the mine?

Well, I don't know exactly.

But I wouldn't have shot him.

Well, I guess I didn't have any plans.

That is, beyond hoping there might be

a mine I might have some legal rights to.

Come on, Walter.

Let's have a look

at the other side of the canyon.

What are you looking for now?

Buckley was hit from behind.

The killer was somewhere up there

by that cliff.

You were up over there.

Does that take me off the hook?

Maybe. Unless Buckley spun around

before he fell.

You see, three other guys

have been knocked off in this same area...

ahead of Buckley, before you even got here.

That's a break in your favour.

Buckley was the fourth?

The fourth in the last two years.

All right around here and all by a 30-30.

And if you look in the record book...

you'll find out 20 men have died

in this mountain since 1880.

Well, I'm through. Let's get back

to Apache Junction and some cold beer.

I was just thinking,

this all adds up to something.

- Like what?

- Four guys murdered, all in the same area...

all by a 30-30,

all in the shadow of Weaver's Needle.

So?

The killer thinks he knows

where the gold is.

When it looked like the others might find it

before he did...

when they got too close,

he knocked them off.

So the jackpot must be somewhere close.

Near that peak.

Buckley, I bet he found it.

- Found what? The mine?

- No, the marker.

He said he knew where the marker was

and how to use it.

Come on. I'll show you something.

There's your marker.

- This is what Buckley meant?

- It's the only marker in this mountain.

The rocks hammered in that old

saguaro cactus indicate three directions...

but only the one pointing north

leads anywhere, though...

to some signs carved

in those rocks up there.

It's quite a climb. Come on.

There they are.

What do they mean?

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