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The girl went and brought John Lexman and his wife, and they came in hand in hand supremely and serenely happy whatever the future might hold for them. The Chief Commissioner cleared his throat. "Lexman, we're all very much obliged to you," he said, "for a very interesting story and a most interesting theory.
Presently he released one hand from the driving wheel, and scribbling on a little block of paper which was inserted in a pocket at the side of the seat he passed it back. John Lexman read: "If you cannot swim there is a life belt under your seat." John nodded. Kara was searching the sea for something, and presently he found it.
The sallow-faced Russian, impassive of face, might have been a carved ivory mask. O'Grady, the American, the stump of a dead cigar between his teeth, shifted impatiently with every pause as though he would hurry forward the denouement. Presently John Lexman went on. "He slipped from the bed and came across to meet me as I closed the door behind me. "'Ah, Mr.
"I think he has hurt you pretty badly, old man," he said gently. John Lexman nodded. "He has, damn him," he said between his teeth. The Chief Commissioner's motor car was waiting outside and in this T. X., Mansus, and a detective-sergeant were whirled off to Cadogan Square. Fisher was in the hall when they rung the bell and opened the door instantly. He was frankly surprised to see his visitors.
"Kara burnt it," said Lexman in a low voice, "I remember seeing him take it up from the table and throw it in the fire." T. X. nodded. "There remains the other half of the evidence," he said grimly, and when an hour later, the village constable returned to report that in spite of his most careful search he had failed to discover the dead man's revolver, his anticipations were realized.
There was a little tap at the door, and before he could say "Come in" it was pushed open and Grace Lexman entered. If you described her as brave and sweet you might secure from that brief description both her manner and her charm. He half crossed the room to meet her, and kissed her tenderly. "I didn't know you were back until " she said; linking her arm in his.
He had a letter from John Lexman announcing the fact that he intended leaving for the United States. He had received a very good offer from a firm of magazine publishers in New York and was going out to take up the appointment. Meredith's plans were now in fair shape.
In the early hours of the morning a tragic little party was assembled in the study at Beston Priory. John Lexman, white and haggard, sat on the sofa with his wife by his side. Immediate authority as represented by a village constable was on duty in the passage outside, whilst T. X. sitting at the table with a writing pad and a pencil was briefly noting the evidence.
Lexman that her husband was dead just as he told John Lexman his wife was gone. What happened was that he brought her back to England " "Who?" asked T. X., incredulously. "Grace Lexman," said the girl, with a smile.
One might almost think that the man who killed Remington Kara was actually standing before us. For that piece of impersonation we are all very grateful;" he glared round over his spectacles at his understanding colleagues and they murmured approvingly. He looked at his watch. "Now I am afraid I must be off," he crossed the room and put out his hand to John Lexman.
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