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Updated: June 5, 2025
So I put the letter to Captain Fraser-Freer out of my mind. I had business acquaintances here and a few English friends, and I found these, as always, courteous and charming. But it is to my advantage to meet as many people as may be, and after drifting about for a week I set out one afternoon to call on my captain.
"Of course," said Bray, still in that dead tired voice. "He is the head of that crowd in England," went on Hughes. "Rather a feather in my cap to get him but I mustn't boast. Poor Fraser-Freer would have got him if I hadn't only Von der Herts had the luck to get the captain first." Bray raised his eyes. "You said you were going to tell me " he began. "And so I am," said Hughes.
Suspicion no longer points to me; constables no longer eye me; Scotland Yard is not even slightly interested in me. For the murderer of Captain Fraser-Freer has been caught at last! Sunday night I spent ingloriously in a cell in Scotland Yard. I could not sleep.
The woman gave a little cry and Lieutenant Fraser-Freer leaped to his feet. "How the devil do you know that?" he cried. "I know it," said Colonel Hughes, "because one of my men happened to be having tea at a table near by.
If only I can make you understand! I have walked my floor, deep in thought, in puzzlement, in indecision. Now I have made up my mind. There is no other way I must tell you the truth. Despite the fact that Bray was Von der Herts; despite the fact that he killed himself at the discovery despite this and that, and everything Bray did not kill Captain Fraser-Freer!
Bray still idled with his pile of letters, while the colonel regarded him gravely. "Poor Fraser-Freer!" Hughes went on. "Unfortunately for him, Von der Herts knew almost as soon as did the inspector that a plan was afoot to trap him. There was but one course open to him: He located the captain's lodgings, went there at seven that night, and killed a loyal and brave Englishman where he stood."
I will say this the death of Captain Fraser-Freer is regarded as a most significant thing by the War Office. Thus it happens that two distinct hunts for his assassin are under way one conducted by Bray, the other by me. Bray does not suspect that I am working on the case and I want to keep him in the dark as long as possible.
On the floor above he heard the solid tramp of military boots belonging to his neighbor, Captain Stephen Fraser-Freer, of the Twelfth Cavalry, Indian Army, home on furlough from that colony beyond the seas. It was from that room overhead that romance and mystery were to come in mighty store; but Geoffrey West little suspected it at the moment.
"Enwright who, by the way, is now in the Tower wanted to communicate with Fraser-Freer, who he supposed was a loyal member of the band. Letters sent by post seemed dangerous. With your kind assistance he informed the captain of his whereabouts and the date of his imminent arrival in London.
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