Monsieur Judas by Fergus Hume — Read

Eight o'clock in the evening by the remarkably incorrect clock on the mantelpiece, eight-thirty by Mr. Fanks' watch, which was never wrong, and that gentleman was seated in a private room of the "Foundryman Hotel" waiting the arrival of Roger Axton.

The "Foundryman" was not a first-class hotel, nor was the private room a first-class apartment, but it was comfortable enough, and Mr. Fanks was too much worried in his own mind to pay much attention to his personal wants. He was much disturbed about his old schoolfellow, as everything now seemed to point to Axton as a possible murderer -- the conversation at Jarlchester, the evidence of Dr. Japix, the delicately insinuated suspicions of Judas -- it seemed as though no doubt could exist but that Roger Axton was the person responsible for the death of Sebastian Melstane.