They had filled museums and private collections with Egyptian and Phoenician statuettes recently reproduced.

Then, on German soil, they had manufactured Peruvian antiquities in order to sell them to the tourists who visit the ancient realm of the Incas.

Some of the inhabitants received wages for disinterring these things opportunely with a great deal of publicity.
Now the fad of the moment was the black art, and collectors were hunting horrible wooden idols carved by tribes in the interior of Africa.
But what had really impressed Ferragut was the plural which she had employed in speaking of such industries.

Who had fabricated these Peruvian antiquities ?...

Was it her husband, the sage ?...
"No," replied Freya tranquilly.