Horror Stories from Horrified - Volume One (2)

expense, par ticular ly for the finer colour s and shades that ar e r ar ely seen in cloth.
To w ear them, (as w ith this par ticular jacket Mr Denholm), it is a mar k of finesse.
Of class, and a sign of no little w ealth. It signifies w hat you may call a cer tain
amount of ?Je sais toutement quoi?. This r ar e and beautiful colour and I became
synonymous. It became the motif by w hich I was know n. By w hich the colour itself
became know n, such was my r enow n at the height of my pomp. A blue of my ow n.
This light, difficult to achieve aquamar ine is know n as cyan. ?The blue that He
w ear s?they called it. ?Cyan qu?il por te?. They nicknamed me in this way ?Cyanquille?
you see? And the name r ather stuck. After my death, and subsequent meeting w ith
this r ather ... dispar ate gr oup, they r ather liked it too. See-and-Kill. It?s a good name
I think they felt, for a man among bandits. Cyanquille, Mr Denholm, fabr ic mogul,
long r etir ed...At your ser vice.?
Denholm sat acr oss fr om Cyanquille and obser ved him. It was his clothing, the
older cut and finer y of a bygone age and class, that mar ked him as differ ent, r ather
than the quietus of his for mer being. Denholm had never befor e spoken w ith the
dead. His initial obser vation was that he found them to be str angely attir ed.
?M?sieu Cyanquille...I am at a loss as to w hat to say. How do you do? Pleased to
meet you? They seem such inadequate gr eetings. Yet I hear your w or ds and am
pleased at them. Salutations. I am pleased you intend me no har m and ver y pleased
that w e have a shar ed pur pose too. I am at a loss, how ever , as to w hat you may
want. Why w ould the dead, indeed, w hy w ould you M?sieu, want me to open the
casino so much again?? Denholm r esponded in the same dir ect manner that
Cyanquille had appr oached him. Fear was not something he focussed on in his
business tr ansactions
?When it comes r ight dow n to it, I am unsur e how you could help. So far all you
appear to have done is to fr ighten away my staff to ensur e I cannot r e-open. This
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