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Moquedas, or "Tonto the Daring," as he's known to his companions Mehitabel Lee and Ronnie Jones, with whom he shares many escapades while backpacking with them in the canyons around their town of Highland Boy. When they come across a deep discontinued mineshaft, Ronnie drops a pebble in to determine its depth. Instead of a rock-against-rock echo or the audio of an splash, they listen to a screeching, throbbing wail as if from a tormented witch. Thus begins the adventure of an eternity for the three companions. They are determined to find out about the legends which have caused the people of Highland Boy to be fearful of the thundershowers with great flashes of lightening and building-shaking thunder, which come to town once every year. The elders, the town marshal and doctor, connect testimonies of the old days: of an love between ill-fated addicts whose mishaps in days gone by have led to the mysteries that cause the haunting, screeching laughter and wails of despair that accompany the thunder and lightening. Identified to end the grief of the addicts and end the troubles that plague the town, they set out to learn all they can and clear the town of its problem. Finally, in the coroner's dark, rat-infested warehouse, the adventurers find the main element that will assist them solve the puzzle of the haunted mine and bring serenity to their cherished town. They vow to come back the key, a message of love, to its rightful place, in the haunted mine.