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4. are in for trouble, and the antiquities law will be as good as non-existent here. My conviction is strengthened by another attempt yesterday to rob a tomb, foiled by fallen rock in the dromos.
Oh yes — another one of my pet ideas — a crate of matches was found among the antiquities from Lapithos: rather indicating that my theory of a supplementary load on one trucks was not far wrong. The Empistosyni director was here, and I told him that I would do some more enquiring, and that if I was not satisfied and he did not make a refund, I would turn the matter over to the police. I also wrote to Dikaios, to check on the number of crates sent, so as to be sure that none of the Lapithos things are missing, and also, quite naively, to
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