A Deal With Niko
Written by
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Copyright 1916
Published in Hearst's Magazine, Apr 1916 and then in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Jul 1916. Collected in the book .
The small Japanese man calling himself Niko claimed to be a friend of Lavendale's valet, Perkins, and had come to call to take that servant's place while Perkins spent time in the hospital. Niko is far more than he seems and for Lavendale that will be both a good and a bad thing.