Well, Tom won the first round, but Maurice was not the right person to give up so easily. He waited until Julia and Thomas' footsteps died down, then returned to the suitcase, knelt down next to it and tried to open the lock, but he couldn't. Beads of sweat glistened on his forehead as he stood up again. Maurice stared gloomily at the huge suitcase hiding a terrible secret. He was sure that the jade plate was nothing more than the Twilight Stone, which experts also call the Eye of Amalphon. Maurice, a realist in principle, believed in the curse associated with the stone, and more than anything he wanted to throw the suitcase and its contents into the sea.