Chapter Thirty
Mistress Geller
“Bunny didn’t know it yet, but she had been promoted.”
I interviewed Catherine Geller the same day that I met Sadim. She had joined her employer in exile, where his umbrella of legal protection had been broad enough to shelter them both. She was physically imposing, tall and extremely fit physically, with intense eyes and a no- nonsense attitude.
“Sadim told me he had to leave for the mainland for a while to sort out some legal difficulties. He didn’t seem particularly concerned at the time, so I didn’t press him on it. As a rich man and citizen of the world, he was always getting grief from one bureaucracy or another. It was usually quickly solved when enough gold had crossed the right palms. In his absence, I was more or less in charge of the island. It
