Chapter 37Walter Graves was waiting for them as usual as Joe and the team arrived at Maiden's Farm to begin yet another day's search for the elusive prize that Cutler and his team had as yet failed to identify. Over breakfast that morning Lucius Doberman had proposed an addition to the theory first propounded by Sally and on which he had elaborated the previous night. An entire ship's cargo would surely have been too big to simply spirit away and hide beneath the ground in the depths of the countryside. Plus, if it were so important and had gone missing then why did the Navy put those additional men on board the Livara to guard what would have been an empty hold? Doberman thought that only a part of the cargo had gone, and that was what they were searching for. What that cargo was he hoped
