Chapter 31Despite lack of proof, Chief Instructor Vina remained confident the man she’d seen standing near the leather-worker’s stall was the White man she had admitted to her home more than a year earlier. That he had disappeared without a trace within minutes of her looking his way seemed more than a little suspicious, but he had not appeared to be in a hurry. At the time, there had been two other people by the stall: a White woman examining a bag whose face Vina couldn’t see, and a villager patiently waiting her turn. It had taken some time for Vina to move through the crowd to the stall and by then the White woman had also vanished. Vina had approached the villager, whom she recognised as the mother of a small boy friendly with the children her friend cared for, but gained little infor
