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others and backed them back and went there and got that tablestone and broke it up. And told the priest, say, "I have the tablestone that come out of here." He says, "Well, now, I don't know which is true." He says, "You can tell it's true," he says, "by the age of the stones. Both of it has the same." But some more soldiers come up and captured them and then they all got together and the priest found this door and it wasn't far from where he had the fire. But something where he had to do, and cause that rock to open and they went into this-- that's what the movie put out--went into this mountain, up and down some steps and round through a big room and found this king. And he got a great long scepter and a casket with him. And it said--and it says there will be no peace on this earth until the scepter is found. That's what the movie said. But, now, lots of people might think--

MR STARR: Is the king asleep, you know? Was he asleep?

MINNIE: Oh, sure. He had-- That king has been dead for about fifteen hundred years.

MR STARR: He was--he was really dead? He wasn't asleep?

MINNIE: Yes--he, he, he, he was (coughs) dead.  But you see, all this time, this nation of people knew he was in there somewhere.  But this tablestone had been stolen and no one could find which-a-way to go.  Until that tablestone was found.  Now, that's what Hollywood put out.  I don't know who put that--  I might find out some day who put that picture out.  And why.  We might run in contact together at some kind of thing.  You know.  But my--by me having that same inscription on my pictures that he had on that tablestone.  So therefore, you see I have a very--a very peculiar life.