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“Which columns?” Remi asked

“The Karyatids They stood at the entrance to the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi” Before either Remi or Sam could ask the next question, Evelyn answered it “A Karyatid is a stone column—usually nizable ones are at the Athens Acropolis”

“What kind of test was he trying to do?” Sam asked

“I don’t remember He had a jeweler’s hammer and pick and some kind of acid kitI put it all down in my report to the board I may still have a copy Let me look while we talk”

They heard Evelynof paper

Reht him?”

“That he’d ave hi, but he refused to say what he was up to We ejected hih”

“No police?”

“The board decided against it Lucky for hi seriously He would have done jail ti I don’t knohat happened to him after that Here’s the reportHis name was Bucklin Thomas Bucklin”

“And the acid kit he had?” Sam asked

The sound of flipping pages cae,” Evelyn said “I’d forgotten this part He was using nitric acid”

Ree?”

“It’s not a standard artifact test It’s highly corrosive We don’t use it”

“Who does?”

Saold”