The Pot Thief
Who Studied Pythagoras
By J. Michael Orenduff
Herbert Schuze is an archeologist who specializes in ceramic pots of the indigenous cultures of the Southwest. He has his own code of conduct with regard to the ownership of buried ceramics. He believes that is they pieces are on public lands, as part of the public he is as entitled to them as anyone. He knows that the actual owners and their progeny are long gone.
Hubert is minding his own business tending his shop where he occasionally sells the pots he has acquired, when a shady character offers him a great deal of money to steal a thousand year old pot from a local museum. This is not the kind of chicanery Hubert wants to get involved with but before much time has passed he is accused not only of thievery but also of murder.
Before he was an archeologist Hubert studies mathematics, and recently he picked up a book on Pythagoras and is reacquainting himself with that great scholar. Every one is taught the Pythagorean theorem which states that the sum of the squares of the two short sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the long side. This is also a case for seeing things from a different perspective and checking out all the angles.
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