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It is now four days since I reported the matter, and no action has been taken. It is no secret who robbed the tomb; I did it, I have been approved, [illegible] I pardon was told the chief whom I suspected (I was right), and the greek text αγορανομος greek text and two policemen have told me that the police chief knows who is the criminal, but will take no action: that I will do well to forget the matter.
I got the knife back, but the search, managed by Hassan, was so conducted that no record of a permit was found. A note, signed by the chief of police in Limassol, calls attention to the fact that my having the knife (I had come straight from the tomb!) was "an offence against the law", and gives me permission to use it at the site of excavations. The local chief takes great pleasure in announcing daily in the cafés that if he sees the knife he
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