The Trifling Lapse of the Mayor of St. Marac
Written by
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Copyright 1939
First published in Pearson's Magazine (UK - September 1938). 6th story in the collection . Taking a rare hike into the mountains behind his chateau, Besserley learns of a developer who is planning to toss out a family who has a long term lease but who is delinquent in rent payments. He would have not gotten involved but he did not care the landlord's rudeness.