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Updated: May 14, 2025
Can you offer another suggestion?" John Lexman thought again. "I will not suggest trap doors, or secret panels or anything so banal," he said, "nor mysterious springs in the wall which, when touched, reveal secret staircases." He smiled slightly.
It happened that the cab drove up to the door of the Great Midland Hotel as John Lexman was coming out. "Come and lunch with me," said T. X. "I suppose you've heard all the news." "I read about Kara being killed, if that's what you mean," said the other.
The man shook his head. "There warn't any revolver, sir, except the pistol which Mr. Lexman had." He fumbled in his pocket and pulled it out gingerly, and T. X. took it from him. "I'll look after your prisoner; you go down to the village, get any help you can and make a most careful search in the place where this man was killed and bring me the revolver which you will discover.
They went out and left them alone, two people who found in this moment a heaven which is not beyond the reach of humanity, but which is seldom attained to. Belinda Mary had an eager audience all to her very self. "Of course she didn't die," she said scornfully. "Kara was playing on his fears all the time. He never even harmed her in the way Mr. Lexman feared. He told Mrs.
You'll probably find it in a ditch by the side of the road. I'll give a sovereign to the man who finds it." The constable touched his hat and went out. "It looks rather a weird case to me," said T. X., as he came back to the table, "can't you see the unusual features yourself, Lexman!
All your letters will be read, all your life will be examined and the world will know you for what you are! "I released his arm for just as long as it took to draw my knife and strike. I think he died instantly," John Lexman said simply. "I left him where he was and went to the door. I had not much time to spare. I took the candles from my pocket.
He stood with his chin in his hand, a frown on his face. "Mansus," he said, "suppose there were three people here, Lexman, the money lender and a third witness. And suppose this third person for some reason unknown was interested in what took place between the two men and he wanted to watch unobserved.
"I am rather rattled," said the Governor. "One of my men has got away. I suppose you know that?" "And I am afraid another of your men is going away, sir," said T. X., who had a curious reverence for military authority. He produced his paper and laid it on the governor's table. "This is an order for the release of John Lexman, convicted under sentence of fifteen years penal servitude."
"I want you to unburden yourself to me, my dear chap, and tell me anything you can that will help me to clear up this mystery." John Lexman looked straight ahead with a worried frown. "I would do almost anything for you, T. X.," he said quietly, "the more so since I know how good you were to Grace, but I can't help you in this matter.
John Lexman was somewhere in the world, hiding as he believed from justice, and with him was his wife. T. X. had no doubt in his mind as to this solution of the puzzle.
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