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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Wake up!" said T. X. "You're amongst friends and cut all that 'bus' stuff out. Of course we searched Vassalaro's lodgings!" "No, we didn't, sir," said the other triumphantly. "He lived in Great James Street." "He lived in the Adelphi," corrected T. X. "There were two places where he lived," said Mansus. "When did you learn this?" asked his Chief, dropping his flippancy. "This morning.
Armed with this, his task would have been fairly easy, but when to this evidence he added a rough draft of the threatening letter which he had found amongst Vassalaro's belongings, and which had evidently been taken down at dictation, since some of the words were misspelt and had been corrected by another hand, the case was complete.
It was on the advice of Mansus that the road from London to Lewes had been carefully covered and such streams as passed beneath that road had been searched. The revolver had been found after the third attempt between Gatwick and Horsley. Its identification was made easier by the fact that Vassalaro's name was engraved on the butt.
It was not usual for Mansus to burst into anywhere. He was a slow, methodical, painstaking man, with a deliberate and an official, manner. "What's the matter?" asked T. X. quickly. "We didn't search Vassalaro's lodgings," cried Mansus breathlessly. "It just occurred to me as I was coming over Westminster Bridge. I was on top of a bus "
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