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company excepted, of course. And—”
“That’s Uncle Atherton,” Dora said, in a low voice to Alex and Ruby. “He went off to Peru last year to look for antiquities – he’s going to start an antiquity exhibition and tour the country with it. It all started when he went to Mexico and found the most gorgeous hoard of Aztec treasure. It was worth simply heaps of money, and now he’s spending it all on buying things for his exhibition. That’s Miss Flynn. She’s a lady anthropologist and he met her in the middle of a jungle. They kept having fights about whether buying artefacts from the natives was exploitation, or just trade. She made Uncle Atherton pay three times as much as he was going to for everything. And then
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