“You’re angry,” Ellie noted a bit numbly. “Yeah—I guess maybe I am!” Bates’s tone rose to nearly a yell. “I guess maybe it’s occurred to me that if the museums weren’t so happy to buy whatever trinkets turned up on offer without asking the right questions about where they came from, there wouldn’t be so much of a market for looted antiquities. And maybe I wouldn’t have to keep stumbling across places like this!”
