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The wo to decide if they could afford to shop there “One er, Monsieur Karim” She disappeared down a hallway at the back of the store and returned about two minutes later with a white-haired man in a dark suit

He smiled at them both, then directed his attention to Sa in particular?”

“You’ll have to ask my wife I’m just here to write the check”

“Of course And so I…?”

“Sean Longstreet,” Sam said, “and my wife, Rebecca”

“A pleasure to make your acquaintance Please, come in, feel free to look around” He followed theurine “And where are you visiting from?”

“Boston,” Remi said “We were in Italy for business My husband’s, of course I ca”

“What sort of business, if you don’t ?”

Sam said, “SRF Import/Export”

“I wo just outside the hallway near the back of the store, giving her the slightest of nods After she left, he clasped his hands together, ss you to Tunisia?”

“A side trip,” Re up a s antiques in your country I’ for ave a disinterested look around the roo on the wall”

“Perhaps so like this …” He led her toward the back of the shop, pointing to a large embossed copper plate mounted on a stand “This one is a sublime example of a Roman charioteer, circa early seventeenth century”

Re the small card set in front of it that listed the price at seventy-five hundred dinars, which put it over twenty-five hundred dollars “It’s beautiful,” Re for”

“And what is it you’re looking for, madame?”

“Soive the room more of an ancient Roman villa look Rustic, but with a hed “Sadly, while in Italy we didn’t have ti trip and all we found were cheap reproductions”