Meanwhile, Ihad to go wash my hands. I looked at the bathrooms, and decided that I'd better not try themen's room. I only had the one set of cuff.... I pulled the gloves off, then spent a couple minutes washing myhands, trying to keep from shaking. Like you do when you just get outof a fight by the skin of your teeth. Plus it was a girl's bathroom.Again. Julia, from drama, came in wearing a tuxedo. I smiled when I sawher in the mirror, then dropped my eyes, embarrassed. *Don't. Parents were hardly interested in playing holi and they retired to their room to watch a local movie on the television. Rajani had some puja to perform and so she could not participate. After Rajani left the girls went back to their room and Jiju to his room to change into suitable clothes for playing colors.Priya and Sonali wanted to be on the terrace first so that they can catch Jiju by surprise. They hurried in changing their clothes. Sonali changed into an old t-shirt and a skirt which came. "Any of you 'chaps' up for a cuppa?"Dr. Howard got up. "Good idea — I'll join you for a drink"Back in the tea-room David poured two mugs of tea, and dribbled a little condensed milk into Mike's. "Any progress David?" asked Michael as he picked up his mug and took a cautious sip."I wish" groaned David, "I just don't know what to look for." Don't worry about it David. I'm sure you will find what you need. Oh, and by the way, congratulations on being the top of your class at West Point," smiled. " We intone as innocently as we can. Finally, at that, he breaks out in laughter.I chuckle along with him as I reach him, and then wrap an arm around the out side of his cloak. Saul does the same on Nimrod's other side. Once we are all hugged tightly to Nimrod, I take the time to look around. I notice that even though it is late morning there aren't any people around. this is unusual. I can't even being to speculate why that is."Where is everyone?" I ask worried not that something has happened.