Three
He’d slept in the bed in the enormous master bedroom — or rather, he’d procured a new mattress to fit in the exquisitely carved bedstead, and slept on that — and awoke refreshed, feeling a cool breeze on his face from the window on the opposite wall. The day was sunny and promised to be comfortably warm and not hot, a blessing on this early October morning. In other parts of the world, the leaves would be turning, but here in San Marino, autumn’s display wouldn’t arrive for more than a month.
After he rose from the bed and went to the window, however, Idris found his gaze drawn once more to the Japanese garden, even though he had no real reason to be looking in that spot. Certainly, he hadn’t detected any strange movements, nothing that would make him think he wasn’t alone here in
