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As a result of that correspondence he undertook to make a geological survey for me. I sent him money for his expenses, and he went off." "You never saw him?" asked John Lexman, surprised. Kara shook his head. "That was not ?" began his host. "Not like me, you were going to say. Frankly, it was not, but then I realized that he was an unusual kind of man.
And he would relate the stories he was telling to her about myself. I cannot describe them. They are beyond repetition." John Lexman shuddered and closed his eyes. "That was his weapon.
Between the station and the house he had woven the plot which had made "Gregory Standish" the most popular detective story of the year. For John Lexman was a maker of cunning plots.
"Don't be silly," she said; "go on and tell me something about Mr. Lexman." "He's going to America," said T. X., "and before he goes he wants to give a little lecture." "A lecture?" "It sounds rum, doesn't it, but that's just what he wants to do." "Why is he doing it!" she asked. T. X. made a gesture of despair.
He spoke in the well-modulated tone of one who had had a long acquaintance with the public schools and universities of England. There was no trace of any foreign accent, yet Remington Kara was a Greek and had been born and partly educated in the more turbulent area of Albania. The two men shook hands warmly. "You'll stay to dinner?" Kara glanced round with a smile at Grace Lexman.
Will you induce Mr. Lexman to give the lecture there?" "But why?" he asked. "Please don't ask questions," she pleaded, "do this for me, Tommy." He saw she was in earnest. "I'll write to old Lexman this afternoon," he promised. John Lexman telephoned his reply.
For answer she rose and walked back to the door with the chintz curtains and flung it open: There was a wait which seemed an eternity, and then through the doorway came a girl, slim and grave and beautiful. "My God!" whispered T. X. "Grace Lexman!"
"Then you're in some danger, T. X.," smiled the Chief, "for according to my account you're always more or less broke." "A genial libel," said T. X., "but talking about people being broke, I saw John Lexman to-day you know him!" The Chief Commissioner nodded. "I've an idea he's rather hit for money. A telephone bell in the corner of the room rang sharply, and T. X. picked up the receiver.
He put down the lantern and leant against the wall. "'I'm afraid that wife of yours is breaking up, Lexman, he drawled; 'she isn't the good, stout, English stuff that I thought she was. "I made no reply. I had found by bitter experience that if I intruded into the conversation, I should only suffer the more.
He gave a sketch of the case from start to finish in as brief a space of time as possible. "The evidence against Mr. Lexman is very heavy," he said. Why he should have brought it with him, I cannot say. Anyhow I doubt very much whether Mr. Lexman will get a jury to accept his version.
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