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dire perplexity.
"He is not ill?" he questioned.
You mean"
"Conhdentially, Doctor" ! admitted,
we haven't the faintest notion just
how he Is. lie may be in excellent
health or he may have ceased TO
exist"
Good Cod" he exclaimed. and his
face was as white as his linen.
Our best information is that he is
on a steamer-a tramp-bound for
China, but we have no particulars, and
worse still, no verihcation."
II was neither fair nor consistent TO
conceal longer from one so Justly in
terested the whole truth, and so, with
out reservation, ! told DR.. Addison the
story.
Before I had quite concluded, Miss
| Clement was announced, and when
she was shown into the library, in
stead Of permitting the physician to
leave, as he made offer Of doing.
: presented him and insisted upon his
! remaining.
81 want you to tell Miss Clement
about your patient, Doctor" l said.
Miss Clement is very good friend
Of Miss Graysons."
! GraciOusly he complied, making Il
quite clear that sedatives and sleep
would undoubtedly effect prompt re
covery.
And now Miss Clement will tell us
something" / added She has had
patient. too. who died this morning, as
you may have seen by the afternoon
papers-the Eurasian who was shot
by McNish."
Up to that moment ] knew but little
of what Soy had divulged. for the mis-
sionary, in her two or three brief tele-
phonic talks, had given us scarcely
more than promises of important reve-
lations when opportunity could be
made for a meeting; and was impa-
tent for the fulfilment
She had chosen seat at some little
distance from us, but now, at my So
licitation. she accepted a more com
Portable chair. which | placed in con-
fidential juxtaposition with our own.
Its rather a long story" she be-
gan, in her sweetly quiet voice. And
as il came to me piecemeal. I'm afraid
it will be rather disconnected. You
see this poor fellow suffered horribly
at times and when he was not suffer
ing he was under the influence of OPT.
ates. so ordinarily | doubt that II
would be safe to accept as fact a good
deal said under such circumstances. II
appears 10 me, however, that in his
, case, these very conditions only
? strengthen the probabilities; for his
! mind seemed to hold only the one
theme, and his statements could hard
. ly have been either spontaneous oil
l studied inventions. On the other
hand, they were rather a sort of invol
untary recital Of the particulars Of q
/ subject which had engrossed him fol
:. years to the exclusion of almost every
y thing else"
e DR.. Addison nodded his head, en-
couragingly. Il quite understand
d Miss Clement" he said And |, TOO
2 assured her that her reasoning ap
peared to me logical.
II 1t was significant" she continued
q that so far as | could fix dates, h,
p made no references at all TO any hap
q pening prior to sixteen years ago Tn,
n tragedy of that time was the begin
ming Of what ! think I may call hi
mania. Everything he told me had t,
do with It. 1t came at the beginning
at the apex, and at the end OF ever,
Is revelation"
u The tragedy OF sixteen years ago?
inquired the physician
ie The tragedy of what has bee
ie called The Sable Lorcha,'" reminc
ed him.
oh, yes, OF course"
You know OF that. them" aske
s. Miss Clement. And briefly ran owe
what Yup Sing had told me.
le John Soy. | understand, was tn
We cook whom McNish imprisoned in tn
as galley" / added
~ 1T seems he broke his way out Jus
~ as the lorcha was sinking. McNis
had waited until he had gone TO hi
bunk for his usual hop. and ha
IL chosen the hour he was sleeping [
We get away and scuttle the vessel Fo
Us five days Soy foated about on bit {
10 wreckage without food or drink, an
was finally picked up by proa an
n taken back to Macao at the mouth {
r; the Canton river, where, after weel
of delirium. he told his story Of III
70, lorcha's fate From that day the scare
n for McNish began. 1t seems that h
is had a partner, an lrishman, name
is Moran, who for time was suspecte
IN OF having been in the conspiracy; 70
TO you must remember, it was thougl
p then that the sinking Of the iorcha ha
IS. been planned from the first, the idC
being that It was simply a scheme
get the passage money from the poo
Iy. coolies, and then drown them"
a "Horrible!" CALCULATED the ph
ng stefan.
But the Chinese are just" the mi
at sionary continued They discover,
that a certain United States cruis,
that had been warned of the attemI
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