Abruptly, a jarring sense of something out of place prompted him to turn and look behind him. He recoiled. Yet all that met his eyes was an empty rattan chair: a light-brown, comfortable, single-seat rattan chair with an indigo dyed cushion on it. What was so strange about that? Feeling a shade more composed, he turned this over in his mind and soon realized what had triggered his reaction. While all the other furniture in the room had been knocked out of place by the agonized death throes of the occupants, that seat alone was in the right position.
