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'Voodoo drummers from Haiti,' whispered Leiter

There was silence With the tips of their fingers the druan a slow, broken beat, a soft rumba shuffle

'And now, friends,' announced the MC, still turned towards the drums, 'G-G…' he paused, ' SUMATRA'

The last as a yell He began to clap There was pandemonium in the room, a frenzy of applause The door behind the druold loincloths, ran out on to the floor carrying between theure, swathed completely in black ostrich feathers, a black domino across her eyes

They put her down in the middle of the floor They bowed down on either side of her until their foreheads ht off theh the door

The MC had disappeared There was absolute silence save for the soft thud of the druirl put her hand up to her throat and the cloak of black feathers came away from the front of her body and spread out into a five-foot black fan She swirled it slowly behind her until it stood up like a peacock's tail She was naked except for a brief vee of black lace and a black sequin star in the centre of each breast and the thin black domino across her eyes Her body was slinted in the white light

The audience was silent The druan to step up the te of the huirl's naked stomach started slowly to revolve in time with the rhythain, and her hips started to grind in time with the bass drum The upper part of her body was ain, and now her feet were shifting and her shoulders The dru a different tihtly frolinted hotly through the dia-like face -- chienne was the only word Bond could think of

The druirl tossed the big fan off the floor, held her aran to shiver Her belly s straddled Her hips began to revolve in a wide circle Suddenly she plucked the sequin star off her right breast and threw it into the audience The first noise carowl Then they were silent again She plucked off the other star Again the growl and then silence The druan to crash and roll Sweat poured off the drurey flannel on the pale , distant Their heads were slightly bent to one side as if they were listening They hardly glanced at the girl The audience panted softly, liquid eyes bulging and rolling

The sas shining all over her now Her breasts and sto jerks Her mouth opened and she screamed softly Her hands snaked down to her sides and suddenly she had torn away the strip of lace She threw it into the audience There was nothing now but a single black G-string The drums went into a hurricane of sexual rhythain and then, her arms stretched before her as a balance, she started to lower her body down to the floor and up again Faster and faster Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth His an to shout at her 'Crind'

She sank to her knees and as the rhyth spas softly

The drums came down to a slow tom-tom beat and shuffle The audience howled for her body Harsh obscenities came from different corners of the room

The MC came on to the floor A spot went on hi off his chin He spread his arms in surrender

'Da G-G AGREES!'

There was a delighted howl from the audience Now she would be quite naked 'Take it off, G-G Show yoself Baby Crowled and stuttered softly

'But, hts OUT!'

There was a frustrated groan froed in darkness

Must be an old gag, thought Bond to himself

Suddenly all his senses were alert

The howling of the , rapidly At the same ti

'Hey,' shouted Leiter His voice was close but it sounded hollow

Christ! thought Bond

So snapped shut above his head He put his hand out behind hi wall a foot frohts,' said a voice, quietly

At the saripped He was pressed down in his chair

Opposite hi his elbows They were in a tiny square cell To right and left were two uns trained on thee lift and the table settled quietly to the floor Bond glanced up There was the faint join of a broad trap-door a few feet above their heads No sound carinned

'Take it easy, folks Enjoy da ride?'

Leiter let out one single harsh obscenity Bond relaxed his