The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-12-27
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"Dr, Massey has just come down,
Mr.. Clyde" he said, "and would you
spare tim a moment in the reception
room?"
turned to Evelyn.
shall we have him In here?" |
asked. And at her consent, Checka-
beedy. q moment later, led the doctor
to us--a very changed doctor, q very
decidedly less cocksure doctor than
had encountered earlier that morn
ing In his Fitty-sixth street Office.
Even In his bow to Evelyn detect
ed the shamefaced humiliation he was
suffering.
I'VE take of our hats to your per-
splcacity, Miss Graysoh," he said.
confirming my reading. II had never
thought such q modern real-life In
stance OF Lesuruues and Dubosc pos
Slble."
"Then you adult?" I asked, smiling.
"Candldly. There Is no question.
Yet could have sworn yesterday that
was attending Mr.. Cameron. 1t Ia
the most remarkable resemblance |
have ever seen"
Evelyn asked him to be seated and
I drew out a chair for him.
And how do you fnd the patieht?"
| inquired, when he had sat down.
Quite normal in every respect save
one. He Ia in a highly nervous state.
He Is endeayoring to maintain the &c
ton that he Is the gentleman we sup
posed he was. He evidently learned
his lesson from Mr.. Bryan, before we
suspected anything. 1t is really won
derful how well he does it, consider
ing that he never saw the man he IL
trying TO impersonate,"
Put he must know that he has been
discovered. He certainly knows l have
this letter."
"A desperate man viii battle against
the most overwhelming odds" DR.. Mas
sey observed. "and he Is a desperate
m~~
"Tou gave no sign that you knew"
Evelyn asked.
Not the slightest. pretended that
believed him Mr.. Cameron"
But Mr.. Bryan must have" |
began.
"On the contrary" said the doctor,
"Mr. Bryan knows him only as the
Mr.. Cameron he has nursed from the
first. He would be the last man TO in
dictate to his patient knowledge of
anything untoward."
Miss Grayson and / we're just dis
cussing a course Of action when you
arrived, Doctor" ] explained, but had
reached no conclusion. Last night |
arranged with Yup Sing, who Is prob
ably the most prominent and best edu-
Gated Chinanan In New York, and his
friend the Chinese Vice Consul to
meet me here today at noon. The
chances are they will bring a United
States deputy marshal with them
with q warrant for McNish's arrest
Now IL we give him up, what win BIZ
the result? He will still maintain that
he Is. Cameron In spite OF our knowl'
edge to the contrary. Yup Sing and
his clan will insist that he is right
and that we are wrong, and our
chances OF finding Cameron will dwin-
die. 1t isn't reasonable to expect that
those engaged in the abduction plot
win confess to their error and inform
us as to Cameron's place Of detention,
Is it,"
DIR. Massey knitted his brow behind
the bow of his glasses and pursed his
thin lips.
1--WE are certainly confronted by a
very trying complication he admitted
with characteristic gravity
Miss Grays0n has suggested that
we send McNish abroad--2t once, on
steamer sailing this morning"
"Mr. Bryan could go with him."
Evelyn volunteered.
If the United States authorities
have warrant for him." the physi-
clan argued, "that would only delay
matters. They would arrest him on
landing"
There was no question as to the &C
curacy Of this deduction.
And the newspapers" added,
would be sure to publish columns Of
speculation. -. il we could only
wiring an admission from McNish II
would simplify matters"
Isn't there some one you could
confront him with?" DIR. Massey ask
ed, and hope rose within nrs at the
suggestion.
"As far as can make out, from
what O'Hara tells me-" was my re-
jOinder, "the police have in custody
now the Eurasian cook who, | believe
has been McNishs Nemesis these six,
teen years. II we could bring those
two miscreants face to face, McNish
would be sure to betray himself"
Then arrange 1t by all means.
urged the doctor.
Have McNish taken there, you
mean?"
"0r have the Eurasian brought
here"
And so, ultimately through the Of
Aces of O'Tlara, who all this time had
been awaiting me in the tonneau Of
my car which still stood at the door
John Soy, accompanied by two plain
clothes men from the Dc sectiVe Blu
reau, was brought from the Tombs ia
that sumptuous home on upper Fifth
avanno