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puter data file system, but he always claiht a terly, he knehere every scrap of information, every book, every author and source and every report was deposited He liked to boast that he could pick any one out of the maze within sixty seconds

Perlmutter escorted the area, the only room of the house devoid of books "Sit down, sit down," he fairly boo table he'd had carved frohost ship Mary Celeste, whose reht lunch of uava-sautéed shrimp We'll wash it doith a Martin Ray Chardonnay"

Fritz sat beside the table, his tail sweeping the floor Perlave hi

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"You weren't alone," Suroaned softly, fully sated

"Now then, what can I do for you kids?" said Perl Celtic artifacts"

Suht with her, retrieved the report she and Dirk had written on the airplane to Washington and photos of the ancient relics "This pretty well suer's conclusions on the amphor, comb and printed photocopies of the artifacts and chambers"

Perllass of wine, dropped his spectacles over his nose and began reading "Help yourself to more shrimp There's plenty"

"I don't think either of us couldhis stomach

Wordlessly, Perlmutter dabbed around his beard that hidup at the ceiling in thought before he went back to studying the report Finally, he laid it on the table and fixed the Pitts with a steady stare

"Do you realize what you've done?"

Suical find of sonificance"

"Soht tone of sarcasenuine article, you've thrown a thousand accepted archaeological theories down the sink"

"Oh dear," said Suhter "Is it all that bad?"

"Depends from what direction you look at it," Perlmutter said between sips of wine If the report was an earthshaking revelation, he was acting buoyantly calm "Very little is known about Celtic culture much before five hundred BC They didn't keep written records until the Middle Ages All that is known through the mists of time is that sometime around two thousand BC, the Celts fanned out fro around the Caspian Sea Some historians theorize that the Celts and Hindus shared a coe was similar"