leaked the story to the media
himself, though no one knew this save him. As predicted, all was
traced to the Yule Bash. Javier admitted to the media there'd been an
orgy. The other men all said, “no comment” (as did Luca in Italy;
he was actually quite taken with Miss Singer and wished it had been
him).

The scandal almost did in
Erszebet. “The Baby with Five Fathers” and “Heir to the
Christensen Quintet” were some of the labels attached to the unborn
child. The baby's complexion (even given Javier's odd skin tone)
would give away that it had a black father. Geneva Reale had agreed to
deliver the baby (she had studied nursing before resorting to
dancing) in secret, and it would be sold to a black family. Geneva
knew a couple: the Jamaican Heracles Torrance and his mixed-racewife
Tamara Welsh. They could not have children, and little Dane Hand, as
Erszebet called him, became their son, Dane Torrance (who we know as
an adult aka The Troubleshooter from recent accounts).

The official story was that
the child was stillborn. None of the five men save Javier knew what
had become of the child. Part of the pact the five men swore was that
they would no longer congregate at the Lucifer Club. They did agree
to attend a 15 year reunion there if the club still stood in 1968.
Javier soldered on through the scandal and finally bought out Urias
in 1960. Junius never did learn the truth about what happened; he
assumed his child was in fact stillborn. He did become a pimp,
following in Octavius Flay's footsteps. He was ambitious though; now
known as Black Torpedo