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part responsalble for making an awful mess of things. I am a young man who is trying to get started on a carreer, and I simply can't afford to have such a thing happen. It would be much better for me to put on a life-belt and leave the ship. And, goodness only knows, I don't want to do that.
Dikaios latest trick (sic) became apparent yesterday, when two motor lorries drove up, conveying 12 boxes crates of Lapithos pottery, with the message that I was to unpack them immediately and send the crates back on the same trucks for more. One truck, incidentally, could have carried all.
He gave me absolutely no warning, not even to ask whether we wanted them here or in Lapithos, or even to let me arrange for their transportation. The first thing I knew
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