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Updated: May 11, 2025
"I reached the village," said John Lexman, "and passed through it. There was nobody about, the rain was still falling very heavily and indeed I didn't meet a single soul all the evening. I reached the place appointed about five minutes before time. It was the corner of Eastbourne Road on the station side and there I found Vassalaro waiting.
Again the other was taken back and puzzled by the flippancy of the man from whom he had expected at least the official manner. "When did you see Mr. Vassalaro last?" asked T. X. pleasantly. Kara raised his eyes as though considering. "I think it must have been nearly a week ago." "Think again," said T. X. For a second the Greek started and again relaxed into a smile. "I am afraid," he began.
She wrung her hands in an ecstasy of sorrow and remorse. T. X. looked at her sympathetically. Then he asked, "Did Mr. Kara ever discuss your husband's financial position with you!" "Never." "How did John Lexman happen to meet Vassalaro!" "I can tell you that," she answered, "the first time we met Mr.
The letter was brief: "I must see you to-night without fail," ran the scrawl; "meet me at the crossroads between Beston Tracey and the Eastbourne Road. I shall be there at eleven o'clock, and, if you want to preserve your life, you had better bring me a substantial instalment." It was signed "Vassalaro." John read the letter aloud.
"I warned you against Vassalaro," he said, stooping by the other's side to light his cigar with a spill of paper. "My dear Lexman, my fellow countrymen are unpleasant people to deal with in certain moods." "He was so obliging at first," said Lexman, half to himself. "And now he is so disobliging," drawled Kara.
I was on a bus coming across Westminster Bridge, and there were two men in front of me, and I heard the word 'Vassalaro' and naturally I pricked up my ears." "It was very unnatural, but proceed," said T. X. "One of the men a very respectable person said, 'That chap Vassalaro used to lodge in my place, and I've still got a lot of his things. What do you think I ought to do?"
"I am not laughing at you," he said; "I am laughing at the thought of Vassalaro threatening to kill anybody. He is the biggest coward in the world. What on earth induced him to take this drastic step?" "He said he is being hard pushed for money," said the other, moodily, "and it is possibly true.
"I have never troubled very much about it," replied Lexman, "I know that it is loaded by slipping back the cover, but as my admirer did not send ammunition, I never even practised with it." There was a knock at the door. "That is the post," explained John. The maid had one letter on the salver and the author took it up with a frown. "From Vassalaro," he said, when the girl had left the room.
"Would you swear that you have not seen Vassalaro for a week?" "Certainly," smiled the Greek. "That you did not in fact see him last night," persisted T. X., "and interview him on the station platform at Lewes, that you did not after leaving him continue on your way to London and then turn your car and return to the neighbourhood of Beston Tracey?"
He "beared" them because he knew that Vassalaro was a dead shot, and that the inevitable duel would deprive Cacura of the best president it had had for twenty years, and that the way would be open for the election of Sebastian Romelez, who had behind him a certain group of German financiers who desired to exploit the country in their own peculiar fashion.
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