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will confiscate it again, even if I claim that I am on my way to or from the dig. My permit, he claims, allows for use there, but not for transportation.
I wrote the Commissioner, immediately about the matter, and he was informed that orders had been given for the return of the knife, so that the matter is closed.
But it does seem strange that though we are required to have a guard for Kourion, we are powerless to interfere with plundering, even in our own tract. That the only answer to a complaint is trouble for us, with the strong implication that a wise man doesn't interfere with Hassan Effendi.
But I am not a wise man, and have referred the whole matter to Gunnis, telling him that if it doesn't come to a show-down now, we
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