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In this second collection of short stories from the life of
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criticized it for lack of mystery, but wrote that the stories "engagingly evoke the last days of the Roman
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Gordianus helps his son Eco find out who stole three clay figurines. At the end it was the cat the one who had stolen the figures.
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