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Show -403- eloquent snub? Those of us who were given the opportunity to look over the manuscript of the Professor's book, although we were ostensibly attempting to establish i t s value, found ourselves also looking for clues to his disappearance. Nothing we could; find c l a r i f i e d the mystery, but I was struck by a small object used as a paperweight on the Professor's desk. I t was a miniaturized copy of the golden b u l l ' s head uncovered a t Crete - the head with the double axe implanted between i t s horns? I asked the Professor's wife where this bbdect had come from, and she said the Professor had picked i t up the time they had visited the reconstructed palace at Khossos two years earlier? "He was much impressed by the palace," she told me? "I think he thought i t to be the legendary labyrinth. You know? i t did have the ceremonial chamber - the place where they sacrificed the bulls - a t i t s very deepest point?" "Ah? yes?" I said, "the Minotaur." "Yes?'' she said? "and the place of the doubleheaded axe?" "The place of s a c r i f i c e , " I added. "The k i l l i n g of the Minotaur?" "Yes?" she said? "I wished I had listened more caref u l ly to what he had to say about It??" I d i d n ' t bother her anymore about t h i s puzzle, but I did go back to the manuscript in an attempt for further en- |