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I'll show you the hile brother Joseph escorts our experts" He hesitated, pulled three black ski masks from his coat pocket and flipped one to Oxley "Put that on, we don't want them to see our faces"

"Why bother? They won't live to identify us"

"To intimidate them"

"A little extreuess you have a point"

While Zolar guided the Moores to the enclosed rooolden mummy from the container and laid it on a table covered with several layers of velvet padding

The room had been furnished with a se desk was set with note and sketch pads and several nification There was also a computer terminal with a laser printer loaded with the proper software An array of overhead spotlights was positioned to accent the iolden body suit

When the Moores entered the room, their headsets and blindfolds were removed

"I trust you were not too uncomfortable," said Zolar courteously

The Moores blinked under the bright lights and rubbed their eyes Henry Moore looked and acted the role of an Ivy League professor He was aging gracefully with a sliray hair, and the coe boy Dressed in a tweed jacket with leather patches on the sleeves, he wore his school tie knotted under the collar of a dark green cotton shirt As an added touch he sported a small white carnation in his lapel

Micki Moore was a good fifteen years younger than her husband Like hiure, almost as thin as the seventies era fashion model she had once been Her skin was on the dark side and the high, rounded cheekbones suggested Aood-looking wo that made her stand out at university cocktail and dinner parties Her gray eyes focused and then darted fro to rest on the Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo

"A truly nificent piece of work," she said softly "You never fully described what it was you wanted my husband and me to decipher"

"We apologize for the melodramatic precautions," Zolar said sincerely "But as you can see, this Inca artifact is priceless, and until it is fully examined by experts such as you, we do not ord of its existence to reach certain people who ht attempt to steal it"

Henry Moore ignored the brothers and rushed to the table He took a pair of reading glasses from a case in his breast pocket, slid thelyphs on one arm of the suit

"Rely "Except for textiles and a few pieces of pottery, this is the raphy I've ever seen produced on any object from the Late Horizon era"

"Do you see any problees?" asked Zolar