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Hamilton Burger:
As curator of the Hessler museum, then, you bought a number of paintings at this exhibition.

Dr. Vincent Kenyon:
Yes, Mr. Burger, I did.

Hamilton Burger:
Dr. Kenyon, could you explain to this court exactly how the death of an artist can relate to the sale of his work?

Dr. Vincent Kenyon:
In an artist of Culross' caliber, it's the inevitable law of supply and demand. When the source of the supply is dead, prices rise, if the paintings have merit.

Hamilton Burger:
In effect, Dr. Kenyon, you were the victim of a fraud, a fraud perpetrated by Durrant the art dealer, by the artist himself, and by anyone else who that knew Culross was alive or who participated in setting up his mock suicide or his posthumous exhibition.

Dr. Vincent Kenyon:
Unfortunately I was the victim of just such a fraud.