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Updated: May 14, 2025
I was taken, thrown into prison, taken thence back to England, to prison again, accused of the murder of Vladimir Selinski, of which I shall have somewhat more to say to you soon! When I was freed, for I am innocent of that crime, as you well know, I set out to seek her, to aid her if that might be; and, if she was beyond my aid, at least to avenge her.
"Not exactly; there was not sufficient evidence of my guilt and so I was discharged," I answered; and as I spoke I remembered that, even now, I was liable to be rearrested on that same charge, since I had not been tried and acquitted by a jury. "We know, of course," he continued, "that you did not murder that swine Selinski." "How do you know that?" I demanded.
"One of the heads of the League, a man named Selinski, who called himself Cassavetti, was murdered in London a week ago." That startled him, I saw, though he controlled himself almost instantly. "Are you sure of that?" "I found him," I answered, and thereupon gave him the bare facts. "And the English police, they have the matter in hand? Whom do they suspect?" he demanded.
"Are there any here who are against the election of Constantine" I could not catch the other name, which was a long Polish one, I think "to the place on the council, vacant since the murder of our comrade, Vladimir Selinski?" Selinski! Cassavetti! He little guessed as he spoke that the man who found Cassavetti's body was now within five paces of him!
A near neighbor of yours, by the way, is under surveillance at this very moment, though I believe nothing definite has been traced to him." "Cassavetti!" I exclaimed with, I am sure, an excellent assumption of surprise. "You've guessed it first time; though his name's Vladimir Selinski.
"You were the most deplorable object I've ever seen in the course of my experience, and that's fairly long and varied. I'd like to know how you got into their clutches; though you needn't say if it has any connection with " "Why, certainly. It's nothing to do with Cassavetti, or Selinski, or whatever his name was," I said.
"That I may not tell you, but this I may: if you had been condemned, well " He blew a big cloud of smoke from his cigar, a cloud that obscured his face, and out of it he spoke enigmatically: "Rest assured you will never be hung for the murder of Vladimir Selinski, although twenty English juries might pronounce you guilty! But enough of that.
They found his paper, with all the evidences of his treachery to the League and to her. Selinski came in at the moment when their task was finished, and Stepán stabbed him to the heart. It was not her wish; she would have spared him, vile though he was! Well, it is all one now. They are all gone; she and Stepán, and my master " "He is dead, then?" "Should I be here if he were living?
He seemed in mortal fear of some "Selinski" or a name that sounded like that; and I did discover one point, that by Selinski he meant Cassavetti. When he found he had given that much away, he was so scared that I thought he was going to collapse again, as he did on the staircase. And yet he had been entrusted with a pass-key to Cassavetti's rooms! Only two items seemed perfectly clear.
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