Dr. Branton K. Holmberg

#4 Treasures of the Knights Templars: Sam 'n Me (Tm) Adventure Books (Volume 4) Dr. Branton K. Holmberg

Wal now, like I've been tellin ya we're treasure hunters 'n there's three of us now. If ya've been trackin us ya know we found a third treasure that near yanked our eyeballs right outa our heads lookin at it. Now we're on the trail of another treasure that was hid centuries ago. It's the treasures of the Knights Templar. They was the Christian army defendin the church, 'n fightin in the name of it, fer nearly two hunder't years. This was way back when the church was the most powerful force on earth. Big Mike found a book describin a monastery on the Limpopo River in South Africa that was founded by the Poor Fellows-Soldiers of Christ. They was the ones that later turned inta the Knights Templar. They'd been servin the church since the time of King Solomon 'n was mighty proud of their heritage. Durin all the time they was fightin the crusades 'n such, they was pillagin everthin they could lay their hands on that looked valuable. They gave a great deal of what they took 't the church but the church wanted 'em 't hide a bunch of it too. Sam 'n Big Mike believed the Knights Templar had hidden away an enormous amount of wealth nobody but the Knights Templar themselves knew bout. After a couple of hunder't years of servin the church, the church turned on 'em 'n even killed some of the Knights Templars off. The secret 't where all that loot they hid had been lost fer centuries. Sam figured there might be some kind of link between them monastery treasures we found 'n the Knights Templar. That's what set us off 't see if we could find the monastery down there by the Limpopo River. Yer gonna be surprised at what we found. I hope ya got yer legs pard cause yer gonna need 'em. Gramps