A Dead Man in Tangier (2009)
A Dead Man in Tangier
“The space around the marquee was packed with people, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of them, many of them dressed in robes of pink and blue, saffron and mauve. The Tent, too, was already full of people. A long bar ran down one side of it and there was a crush of people six feet deep pressed against it. Away from the bar it was almost as crowded.
Macfarlane took one look and said: ‘We’d better go straight to the enclosure.' Behind the Tent was a roped-off enclosure full of horses and men, the ...men in brightly coloured shirts and riding breeches, and holding lances, the horses nervous and frisky. Apart from the lances it reminded Seymour of . . . What was it? A circus? That County Show again? He’d got it! He knew what it was. As part of the show there had been a gymkhana. That was it: it reminded him of a gymkhana.
What followed, though, was not at all like a gymkhana.
A bugle sounded and anyone in the enclosure who was not already on a horse began to mount.MoreLess
Macfarlane took one look and said: ‘We’d better go straight to the enclosure.' Behind the Tent was a roped-off enclosure full of horses and men, the ...men in brightly coloured shirts and riding breeches, and holding lances, the horses nervous and frisky. Apart from the lances it reminded Seymour of . . . What was it? A circus? That County Show again? He’d got it! He knew what it was. As part of the show there had been a gymkhana. That was it: it reminded him of a gymkhana.
What followed, though, was not at all like a gymkhana.
A bugle sounded and anyone in the enclosure who was not already on a horse began to mount.MoreLess
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