4.Little Victim
“That saying of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s popped into Major Payne’s head as he watched their host swagger towards them across the terrace. The throng of local dignitaries and their wives and the couple of English expatriates who had been invited to greet Mrs Depleche parted at his advent. Payne was put in mind of the bizarrely curdled appearance of the Red Sea when divided by Moses in the film of The Ten Commandments. Roman Songhera was a well-set-up, olive-skinned young man with a florid fa...ce and sensuous lips. He had drooping eyelids, thick lashes, and somewhat restless light-brown eyes. His appearance was less colourful than that of his waiters, but nearly as theatrical. He was dressed, monochromatically, in white: a double-breasted suit with broad lapels, one of which was adorned by a black gardenia, a gleaming white shirt with a buttoned-down collar, and a white turban that was crossed from each side of his head very symmetrically in such a way that it came to a peak at the top of the forehead where there shone a large ruby.MoreLess
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