Cautiously you continue along the avenue until you are close enough to the flickering lights to identify them as five huge bonfires. They are blazing in the grounds of a civic building—the El Paso Museum of Art—the contents of which have been looted to fuel them. Clansmen and their women dance drunkenly around the fires, feeding the flames with paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, while their confederates urge them to greater feats of destruction with screams and applause.
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The sight of this wanton vandalism stirs you to anger, but you dare not risk an encounter with this drunken crowd, so you turn away from the museum and press on.