It seemed Rico was regarded by the voice as a “dutiful servant”. Within months of Theta’s promise, the prediction of his acquisition of “a much larger beehive” was fulfilled, but at a tragic cost. The millennium was nearing its end when through the Hotel's door sidled a hunched figure, almost surreptitiously it seemed. He was dressed in a crumpled dark suit, down-at-heel shoes, dark glasses under the pulled-down rim of a battered trilby hat. He carried a small suitcase. Commonplace enou...