Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 26 

him go that way just a few minutes ago. He may have just gone to wash his hands. I don't believe Bondarenko had it cleaned out properly. Our public toilets are still a disgrace. I don't know how many times I have ordered them cleaned. I shall have to raise the issue again with the municipal Soviet."
"Thank you, Ekaterina Efimovna. We'll look for him there," Vera said in Russian. Then in English she said to Bellamy, "Quickly, to the WC." She waved across the dance floor to Morozin and pointed to the washrooms.
In the corridor people were gathering. Vera shouted an order in Russian; the people parted for her and Bellamy, who was keeping close behind her, and together they burst into the men's room. There a dishevelled Russian with a bloodied shirt was kneeling over Harioto and making soothing noises. He folded his jacket and had shoved it under Harioto's head. The Russian's sleeve was torn and he was bleeding from the arm, but with