CHAPTER SEVENThe jeweller took a long time finding the right boxes for the jewels and then took much longer packing them up.
Christopher waited impatiently, wandering round the shop and wondering if there was anything else he could buy for Kayla.
The jeweller next began to tot up the bill and this took even longer and, as might well have been expected, he got his sums wrong.
Christopher corrected the man’s primitive arithmetic and not surprisingly the mistake was in the jeweller’s favour.
When he finally paid and carried the parcel of jewels from the shop, he looked for Kayla and found that there was no sign of anywhere.
He looked up and down the street.
There were a number of people walking about, but no sign of her.
He seemed to remember that when she had gone out of the shop she
