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"Signor Demetri Agryopoulo will appear in his great stiletto trick, frustrated by Billy Barndale, the Bounding Brother of the Bosphorus." 'What is to be done? said Barndale, ignoring his companion's flippancies. 'Yes, said Leland, sitting down and growing suddenly grave. 'What's to be done? Read the letter out, Billy, and let's consider the thing seriously. Barndale read aloud.
There, in a delicate but tremulous hand, was written, 'Demetri Agryopoulo, Hotel Misserie, Grande Rue de Pera. 'He lives in this house, said Barndale gravely. 'Lock your door before you go to bed. Leland took his advice. The next morning at table d'hôte they met the Greek. He was evidently well known at the table, and was popular.
Demetri Agryopoulo turned and awaited the arrival of these two onward-rushing figures calmly. The doctor laid a hand upon him. 'I arrest you on a charge of murder, he said, gasping for breath. 'Bah! said Demetri Agryopoulo quietly, and threw the doctor's hand aside. The doctor seized him again, but he was spent and breathless. The Greek threw him off as if he had been a child.
Arrived at the historic 'Swan, they settled down to their separate avocations Lilian and the doctor to nurse Leland, and Barndale to do all that in him lay to track the Greek. My story nears its close; and I may say at once, without word-spinning, that Demetri Agryopoulo disappeared, and was no more heard of.
But he found none, and the Greek was already growing dim in the twilight mist. And again Demetri Agryopoulo went his own way, and the darkness shrouded him. Thecla Perzio received Barndale with much shyness and embarrassment; and he, seeing that she was a good deal afraid of him, plucked up courage and treated her rather wilfully.
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