Read the passage below, and answer the following question. 1. Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides h
ad fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom. 2. In this were the shaft of a pick broken in two and the boards of several packing-cases strewn around. 3. On one of these boards I saw, branded with a hot iron, the name Walrus—the name of Flint's ship. 4. The cache had been found and rifled; the seven hundred thousand pounds were gone! Which of the following sentences best supports the theme in this passage? sentence 1 sentence 2 sentence 3 sentence 4