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Seances, skis and secrets: an extraordinary WWI escape

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The Secret of the Spook

A wealthy armenian of the town of yosgad, converted his wealth to gold and buried it in a spot known only to him. He made up three clues that together revealed the treasure's whereabouts. The object was to get tangible proof that their captors were now complicit with captives. And that proof would keep their confederates safe once jones and hill escaped. So on the hunt for the first clue, which hill, on his skis, had buried about two miles from camp,. Hill wielding a tiny, concealed camera that he had had smug in a vest pocket, kodak, which was the newest, new thing, very small, wielding that concealed camera.

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