Volume 1, No. 1
Banquet / Tyrras ... 29
attacker lashed out
at the man lying in the trough, but the downed man raised his arm in time
to fend off that attack. The wouldbe assassin tore through the crowd
in the doorway, and raced out.
Bellamy repeated Harioto's
story for Vera. She asked Kostylev, the man who saved Harioto, if he could
describe the attacker was, or if he had ever seen him in Blagoveshchensk.
He may have been one of the waiters, although Kostylev could not absolutely
certain. Vera asked Bellamy to relieve Kostylev while she examined his
cut arm. She took Kostylev's shirt off, tore it, and used part of it to
bandage his cut arm; the rest of it she tossed to Bellamy.
"Throw away the handkerchief
and use his shirt," she ordered Bellamy. Kostylev was muttering something
and shaking his head. "He feels embarrassed that a foreigner, and one
who was their benefactor, was knifed, and that