195. In Penang
- Where will we stay? asked Larson in the taxi going from the airport to Penang city.
- The Oriental Hotel, said Duff.
- The Oriental Hotel? Now there is a name with schwung, said Larson. - Is it as grand as the Oriental in Bangkok?
- As grand as you get for 69 ringit a night.
- About the same as the Malaysia Hotel, then.
- Yes. A no questions asked, no questions answered kind of hotel.
- Are we here already?
- Penang is not Bangkok. It is a small city.
Duff paid the driver and the two farangs took their luggage to the hotel reception.
- You have booked two separate room, I hope? asked Larson.
- Why? You don’t love me anymore?
- I love you too much to share a room with you.
- I agree. Let us not risk our beautiful frienship by getting too close too quickly. Two single rooms it is.
Having paid for two nights in advance Larson and Duff took the lift to the 11th floor.
- This lift has seen better days, said Larson.
- Don’t complain. It is as good as it was in 1969.
- Do they have a joiner policy in this hotel?
- I think the problem in Penang is to find a boy to join you, not to get him past the reception.
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Lucy received a call on her mobile phone. The loud call tune was “Born to be a woman”.
- Exu me, said Lucy
- Is it Bia? asked Peter.
- No no, said Lucy and went to the balcony to talk on her phone.
- Congratulations, said Robert Miller. - You have someone living with you again.
- Not as I had expected, said Peter.
- What are you going to do?
- What can I do? Lucy is holding Bia hostage in Pattaya.
- This is strange even by Thai standards.
- Lucy is moving in with me in Bangkok? Who is Bia living with in Pattaya? Maybe Lucy’s boyfriend?
- You have to get to the bottom of this, said Robert. - And get rid of that cabaret star.
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