Though it would have been a shame. All that finery did suit him.
When Damiskos came into the house, Niko hurried up to tell him that the mistress was back and discussing with Aradne at that very moment the question of what had happened to Aristokles Phoskos.
It came as rather a strange shock to recall that when he had last been looking for Nione it was with the intention of telling her a vague story about Aristokles acting suspiciously and Gelon menacing Varazda for unknown reasons. He knew so much more about it now, and he couldn’t talk to her because he was committed to keeping Varazda’s secret, and he didn’t yet know what story Varazda was going to give to account for Aristokles’s disappearance.
If it was true that Eurydemos’s students had murdered men in Boukos and stolen valuable d
