He heard Rodston call back, "I already have it. It is a bag with items in it, and it is tied closed. I am bringing it with me back up this way now."
Ebert held the instrument giving off the light toward Rodston as Rodston moved back up, climbing along the steps which were left within the wall of that space that led below. Rodston said, "You don't have to keep shining the light this way. It is in my face, you could point it another way."
Ebert quickly turned the light toward the way through which they both had come. Rodston was up with him shortly, and he said, "You look like you were really spooked. Why would you be scared?"
"I do not know. But I thought I heard a noise that way. What is this you found?"
Rodston said, "I will untie this, and we can then see what these items are in it."
Rodston worked carefully at the tie, which had closed the bag for apparently a long time, while Ebert watched the passage through which they had come, nervously.
Rodston eventually had it open. He said, "There is a stack of papers in it. That is why this was heavy. And there is a book I think under the pile." Rodston carefully moved the book out from under the papers, from the bag on the ground there. He pulled it up toward the light, and looked at it. There was something depicted on the cover.
"Is it readable to us, in our language?" Ebert asked. "What does it say?"
Rodston looked carefully, and then he looked at Ebert, and said, "Supernatural Explanations!"
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