Adulterer's Luck
July, 1977
We rather disliked children; we had none of our own, but that was seldom noticed, because the local kids were everywhere. They strayed from the staff quarters and the kampong into the club grounds, meeting in threes--three Tamils, three Malays, three Chinese, as if that were the number required for play. They usually quarreled: It was an impossible number--one was invariably made a leper, victimized and finally rejected. Alec called them villains. He blamed the theft of his camera on one particu...
