Anyhow I doubt very much whether Mr.Lexman will get a jury to accept his version.

Our only chance is to find the Greek's revolver--I don't think there's any very great chance, but if we are to be successful we must make a search at once." Before he went out he had an interview with Grace.

The dark shadows under her eyes told of a sleepless night.

She was unusually pale and surprisingly calm.
"I think there are one or two things I ought to tell you," she said, as she led the way into the drawing room, closing the door behind him.
"And they concern Mr.Kara, I think," said T.X.
She looked at him startled.
"How did you know that ?" "I know nothing." He hesitated on the brink of a flippant claim of omniscience, but realizing in time the agony she must be suffering he checked his natural desire.
"I really know nothing," he continued, "but I guess a lot," and that was as near to the truth as you might expect T.X.to reach on the spur of the moment.
She began without preliminary.
"In the first place I must tell you that Mr.Kara once asked me to marry him, and for reasons which I will give you, I am dreadfully afraid of him." She described without reserve the meeting at Salonika and Kara's extravagant rage and told of the attempt which had been made upon her.
"Does John know this ?" asked T.X.
She shook her head sadly.
"I wish I had told him now," she said.

"Oh, how I wish I had!" She wrung her hands in an ecstasy of sorrow and remorse.
T.X.looked at her sympathetically.