Of this new man I learnt later that he was a perfect scamp. But for me he proved a godsend. Within two or three days of his arrival, he discovered certain irregularities that were going on under my roof without my knowledge, and he made up his mind to warn me. I had the reputation of being a credulous but straight man. The discovery was to him, therefore, all the more shocking. Every day at one o’clock I used to go home from the office for lunch. At about twelve o’clock one day the cook came panting to the office, and said, “Please come home at once. There is a surprise for you.”
“Now, what is this?” I asked. “You must tell me what it is. How can I leave the office at this hour to go and see it?”
“You will regret it, if you don’t come. That is all I can say.”
I felt an appeal in his persistence. I went home accompanied by a clerk and the cook who walked ahead of us. He took me straight to the upper floor, pointed at my companion’s room, and said, “Open this door and see for yourself.”
I saw it all. I knocked at the door. No reply! I knocked heavily so as to make the very walls shake. The door was opened. I saw a prostitute inside. I asked her to leave the house, never to return.
To the companion I said, “From this moment I cease to have anything to do with you. I have been thoroughly deceived and have made a fool of myself. That is how you have requited my trust in you?”
Instead of coming to his senses, he threatened to expose me.
“I have nothing to conceal,” said I. “Expose whatever I may have done. But you must leave me this moment.”
This made him worse. There was no help for it. So I said to the clerk standing downstairs: “Please go and inform the Police Superintendent,