Chapter 54 P1
“No, thank you.” Jennifer looked at the teeming sea of people thronging the sidewalks and streets. Under other circumstances she might enjoyed this. Singapore was a fascinating city, a city to share with someone you cared about.
Inspector Touh was saying, “Watch. It is almost midnight.”
Jennifer looked up. At first she notices nothing. Then she saw that all the shopkeepers were simultaneously beginning to close up their stands. In ten minutes, every stall was closed and locked and their owners had disappeared.
“What’s happening?” Jennifer asked.
“You will see.”
There was a murmur from the crowd at the far end of the street, and the people began to move towards the sidewalk, leaving a cleared place in the street. A Chinese girl in a long, tight-fitting evening gown was walking down the center of the street. She was the most beautiful woman Jennifer had ever seen. She walked proudly and slowly, pausing to greet people at the various tables, and then moving on.
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