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Updated: June 23, 2025
"I am very grateful to you, sir, for putting me right with Commissioner," began Mansus, but T. X. stopped him. "It is the duty of every head of departments," he said oracularly, "to shield the incompetence of his subordinates. It is only by the adoption of some such method that the decencies of the public life can be observed. Now get down to this."
"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.
He turned from T. X. to the discomforted inspector. "Very little," said T. X. "I've had Mansus on the job." "And you've found nothing, eh?" growled the Chief. "He has found all that it is possible to find," said T. X. "We do not perform miracles in this department, Sir George, nor can we pick up the threads of a case at five minutes' notice." Sir George Haley grunted.
And if Sir William knew especially about my lady's cards and about the snuffbox, what would he think, I wonder, and I'm going to have my rights, for if she can pay thousands to a swell like Mr. Kara she can pay me and " Mansus jerked his head. "Take her down to the cells," he said briefly, and they led her away, a wailing, woeful figure of amateur larcenist.
He swung his stick to the common danger of the public, but the policeman on point duty at the end of the street, who saw him, recognized and saluted him, did not think it fit to issue any official warning. He ran up the stairs to his office, and found Mansus reading the evening paper.
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.
I suppose I am still amenable to punishment and I have decided to surrender myself to the authorities to-night. You used to have a most excellent assistant in Superintendent Mansus, and if it is convenient to you, as I hope it will be, I will report myself to him at 10.15.
"She took her maid, but otherwise she was alone. I thought she looked ill." "She has been looking ill for months past," said T. X., without any visible expression of sympathy. "Did she take Belinda Mary?" Mansus was puzzled. "Belinda Mary?" he repeated slowly. "Oh, you mean the daughter. No, she's at a school somewhere in France."
The next morning John Lexman was lodged in Lewes gaol on a charge of wilful murder. A telegram brought Mansus from London to Beston Tracey, and T. X. received him in the library. "I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department, and that's not saying much."
"By Jove," said the Commissioner, "now you mention it, he did she is still in France." "Oh, is she?" said T. X. innocently, and in his heart of hearts he wished most fervently that she was. They came to the room which Mansus occupied and found that admirable man waiting.
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