your mother is right , this gold is not ours , and it does truly belong to the government as bad as i hate to admit . i tried to concentrate , force my mind to send out its power . `` if he happens to ask us now i will be even more suspicious . as long as he meant it . you mean he 's going to burn a cross in the yard ? '' we did n't really have a chance to talk things over . '' thomas tried to ignore the guy down the hall wearing nothing but a towel . 