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Day dedicated his Saturday morning to working in the Nikos Elias house going through Elias’s early finds from an area of shoreline on the west coast of the island. He had read everything that Elias had written about them, but he wanted to handle the objects again himself, meticulously examining the more interesting ones and describing them in his own words, noting differences between his own observations and those of Elias.
He unlocked the archaeologist’s former house and locked it behind him. It felt cool after the heat outside, cooler even than the air-conditioned interior of Day’s car. The shutters were locked, the windows closed and a stale smell filled the downstairs rooms. Day never went upstairs. He felt that the ghosts of the house’s former occupants remained there, and he wan
