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“Thanks I owe you,” he said, before disconnecting

Nick pushed the notepad toward ist who came here shortly after the Wall fell The Berlin Wall”

“I know my history,” I snapped Oops Rude “I mean, thanks”

“No problem,” he assured me

I scanned the scrawled note, and the na, along with a number I could just barely make out

“Are you still sure you want me as a sponsor?” I asked

He nodded “Do me a favor Go into your recent calls”

So I did “Save your nuuessed

“Exactly,” he said “Now I have your number and you have mine”

Chapter Eighteen

Nick and I parted ithan unofficial partner or side anyone sincewith me in the United States couldn’t be as potentially deadly as doing that in a war zone

Before I left Laurel, I called Peter A with a heavily accented “Hello”

I introducedout most of the worriso about an object’s authenticity from a cellphone photo?”

“Han “In the strictest sense, I can’t really authenticate objects from a photo I would need to use spectroscopic analysis for that But I could look at the photos and judge whether they have the outward appearance of Svaneti artifacts It won’t tell you much, but I can do that”

“That would be great,” I said “Could we meet today?”