His mother had been French and his father was from the Far East.
Monsieur Murillo had the ability of being able to pick a man who had the capability of great success if not the thrust and the authority needed to achieve it.
Sir John was never quite certain how his father had first met the Oriental, but for some reason that had always puzzled him they had become great friends.
It was perhaps in the Englishman and his very long Family Tree that Gavron Murillo had seen what he himself lacked, but which he would have loved to possess.
Whether it was that or other reasons, Sir John had never known exactly what had happened.
But he was well aware that Gavron had taken over for the moment his father’s place as the Head of the Family and began to direct everything in an entirely different way
