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.Kara in England was when we were staying at Babbacombe on a summer holiday--which was really a prolongation of our honeymoon.

Mr.Kara came to stay at the same hotel.

I think Mr.Vassalaro must have been there before; at any rate they knew one another and after Kara's introduction to my husband the rest was easy.
"Can I do anything for John!" she asked piteously.
T.X.shook his head.
"So far as your story is concerned, I don't think you will advantage him by telling it," he said.

"There is nothing whatever to connect Kara with this business and you would only give your husband a great deal of pain.
I'll do the best I can." He held out his hand and she grasped it and somehow at that moment there came to T.X.Meredith a new courage, a new faith and a greater determination than ever to solve this troublesome mystery.
He found Mansus waiting for him in a car outside and in a few minutes they were at the scene of the tragedy.

A curious little knot of spectators had gathered, looking with morbid interest at the place where the body had been found.