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- FIFTY-FIVE - On Thursday the Brethren gathered in the council room of the Salt Lake temple, just as leaders of the Church had been doing ever since construction of the temple was completed in 1893. They filed into the room according to seniority: Elder C. Rigdon Pitt entered first, followed by 2nd...

- FIFTY-FOUR - It sounded like a code word: F Vault . And the skeptical response was immediate: “How can you know for certain that you’ll find anything in there?” Sam had sat there motionless, listening carefully as Bennett explained what he planned to do. On Sunday evening, with the bulk of the cit...

- FIFTY-THREE - It was midway through the morning when the final pieces of the puzzle fell into place for Elder Steele. The key bit of evidence was the presence at the Eldorado of Elder Jarod Kreditor, who had been working for Church Security. He had technically been on-duty at the time of the accid...

- FIFTY-TWO - Once again, there was blood. Elder Pitt had been bleeding like this on and off for a few weeks now, but he hadn’t yet told his doctor about it, nor had he told his wife, Margery. After all, it would always clear up after a day or two, only to return a few days later. Now, each morning,...

- FIFTY-ONE - They left immediately, following a series of dirt roads and out-of-the-way, two-lane highways. Sam rode with Cathy and Don; Bennett traveled with Christian. They wound their way northwards, and then east into Utah, which seemed like a bad idea to Sam, but he didn’t say anything. At one...

Part SIX The Third Nephite “Therefore, more blessed are ye, for ye shall never taste of death; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be fulfilled according to the will of the Father, when I shall come in my glory with the powe...

- FORTY-NINE - For some weeks after the accident, he worried that they’d find him. He feared that someone had seen him, and that they’d report him to the RPD. Either that, or the surveillance cameras embedded in the casino had recorded him stooping down to collect the object as it rolled over to his...

- FORTY-EIGHT - “My friend, you’ve just shaken the hand of the man who shook the hand of the man who shook the hand of the man who shook the hand of the Prophet Joseph Smith.” Elder Steele gave the man a wink and patted him on the shoulder. He’d been given the task of interviewing this man—Wyatt Ack...

- FORTY-SEVEN - It was past midnight when Sam, Christian, and Don finally reached the cabin outside of Ely. They could smell sagebrush in the air when they climbed out of the close confinement of the car, and the patches of snow on the ground were crunchy and frozen underfoot. They made their way up...

- FORTY-SIX - Elder Kreditor watched Elder Higbee disappear after the big man in the coat, and then he fished in his pocket for the card that Mabel had given them and he used it on the door. He went inside and left the door open a crack so that Higbee could get in when he returned. The suite was dar...