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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Sir you have testified to the police that it was a bit past seven when you heard in the room above the sounds of the struggle which which You understand." In view of the mission of the caller who had departed a scant hour previously, the boy's question startled me. "Such was my testimony," I answered. "It was the truth." "Naturally," said Lieutenant Fraser-Freer.
I told myself that here was an Englishman who had perhaps thawed a bit in the great oven of India. If not, no harm would be done. It was then that I came for the first time to this house on Adelphi Terrace, for it was the address Archie had given me. Walters let me in, and I learned from him that Captain Fraser-Freer had not yet arrived from India.
Lieutenant Norman Fraser-Freer has just told me that he killed his brother, and I was on the point of taking down his full confession." "Indeed!" replied Hughes calmly. "Interesting most interesting! But before we consider the wager lost before you force the lieutenant to confess in full I should like the floor." "Certainly," smiled Bray.
What place had she held in the life and perhaps in the death of Captain Fraser-Freer? Why should she come boldly to my rooms to make her impossible demand? I resolved that, even at the risk of my own comfort, I would stick to the truth. And to that resolve I would have clung had I not shortly received another visit this one far more inexplicable, far more surprising, than the first.
The old man sank back into the chair and buried his face in his hands. "If you are willing to change your testimony," young Fraser-Freer went on to me, "I shall at once confess to the police that it was I who who murdered my brother. They suspect me. They know that late last Thursday afternoon I purchased a revolver, for which, they believe, at the last moment I substituted the knife.
My husband was in business there an exporter of rice and Captain Fraser-Freer came often to our house. We he was a charming man, the captain " "Go on!" ordered Hughes. "We fell desperately in love," said the countess. "When he returned to England, though supposedly on a furlough, he told me he would never return to Rangoon. He expected a transfer to Egypt.
You made a heroic effort to keep the facts from coming out a man's-size effort it was. But the War Office knew long before you did that your brother had succumbed to this woman's lure that he was serving her and Berlin, and not his own country, England." Fraser-Freer raised his head.
It was about nine o'clock when Walters tapped at my door and told me two gentlemen wished to see me. A moment later into my study walked Lieutenant Norman Fraser-Freer and a fine old gentleman with a face that suggested some faded portrait hanging on an aristocrat's wall. I had never seen him before. "I hope it is quite convenient for you to see us," said young Fraser-Freer.
"You mean tell him I am no longer certain as to the hour of that struggle?" "Precisely. I give you my word that young Fraser-Freer will not be permanently incriminated by such an act on your part. And incidentally you will be aiding me." "Very well," said I. "But I don't understand this at all." "No of course not. I wish I could explain to you; but I can not.
Nevertheless, when I said good-by to him he pressed into my hand a letter of introduction to his cousin, Captain Stephen Fraser-Freer, of the Twelfth Cavalry, Indian Army, who, he said, would be glad to make me at home in London, where he was on furlough at the time or would be when I reached there. "Stephen's a good sort," said Enwright. "He'll be jolly pleased to show you the ropes.
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