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The door opened Ga entry Herher hand to the short, slight figure, she said, "I hardly recognized you without your machete, Professor"
The professor's change in appearance went beyond a siar cane knife He had on a custoray and a yelloer tie which he wore as naturally as he had his peasant's clothes
Chi's classic Indian face was as stony as a gargoyle, but his dark eyes danced with amusement
"When in Ro
"This is a wonderful surprise, Professor You look well," she said
And you, too, Dr Gamay"
The last tiround as she ascended into the skies in a helicopter Chi appeared none the worse for their river adventure Gaot back to Washington The assault by the blistering Yucatan sun had taken its toll on her fair skin The trail hts haunted by snake dreams hadn't helped
The lecture hall began to reseh the door Befitting his Ivy League surroundings, Trout was in a pseudo-Englisha hound's tooth custom sports jacket tailored in London to fit his tall frame, razor-creased olive slacks, and the inevitable bow tie He apologized for the delay, and while the professor took over the lectern Trout went to the table and slipped a floppy disk into a laptop computer connected to the projection screen The setup was sier Nina sat at the table, and the rest of the NUMA teaer freshmen on the first day of class
Orville opened theNina will tell you that I have a reputation forwild assertions in the local press" His rin "But I'll have to adination would be hard put to come up with a story more fantastic than the one you are about to hear So without further ado I will turn the ue and dear friend, DL Josh Chi"
The lectern dwarfed Chi as he stood beside it with his hands behind his back
"I would like to thank Dr Orville for arranging thisus to use space at this institution where I spent raduate student," Dr Chi said in a voice as crisp as dry leaves As you know, Dr Gamay and I discovered a horde of hundreds of stolen antiquities The artifacts included so carved stone blocks and stelae cut froin, and ed While I would have preferred for the antiquities to have lain undisturbed in the ground and cataloged in situ, the people who re what I understand froency"
Chi raised his finger, and 'Rout punched a coraph filled the screen
"This is the looted site," Chi said "The s clustered around as once the central square of a Mayan city Next, please"
Another picture came on the screen