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From that day began the real work of the expedition. Grass-cutting in a burning sun -- relieved by the fact that they found a water source from which they could not only drink, but refill the tanks on board -- gave place to shifting moorings, exploring house after house of the town, sometimes finding nothing, sometimes jars, drinking-cups, small figures of earthenware more or less mutilated, and metal ornaments. In the fifteenth house they found a marble Hermes with winged feet, so light and delicate that, standing on the deck of the _Lorna_, he seemed on the point of taking flight towards the sun.
Even Bowler and his companions admired this "little chap with the sparrow wings on his feet. " To Martia the thought came with a pang that she would have to part with him. All these things, by the contract, were Behrens', to be turned into money, and, long though she had known Behrens, she well knew that this thing was too valuable to be thought of as a gift.