The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17

rled hand satchel. He greeted his pa
tient cordially. They smoked and
talked awhile before DR.. del Mar
thought it necessary to subject the
heart of little Mr.. Herd to an examina-
ton, He pronounced his condition
quite unchanged.
Indeed, monsieur" he said, speaking
English easily, you cannot look for a
positive cure. certainly no great change
for some time to come. But the pre-
scriptions are benefiting you; they are
undoubtedly arresting any progress Of
the disease. When I received your tel
egram from Antwerp that you would
be at Havre tonight concluded that
! you would have about exhausted your
medicines, so had the old prescrip-
tfons set up anew by my own pharmaS.
cist and have brought them to you"
He produced the bottles from ehis
satcheI, handing them casually to Miss
BurrelI
IF you will be 80 good. DOCTOR" sug-
gested Isaac Herd, perhaps you would
take the old bottles and leave them
with your own druggist for renewal
again my return. think your drug
gist gives them extra care when they
are directly ordered by you"
Doubtless" agreed DR.. Del Mar.
On the second day out OF Havre, when
Miss Burrell would have administered
the II A. M. dose of medicine to little
Mr.. Isaac Herd, that smiling little sick
man suddenly surprised her. For he
looked her directly in the eye and
wirked
Come, Miss Burrell," he said; lets
end this farce. You must have noticed
that for sick man am very regular
at meals and that am suffering the
most peculiar kind of illness. since do
not suffer with it at all. Your recon-
nendation from Miss Crandall has sat-
igfied me from the first, but still |
did not wish to make you my confdanto
recklessly."
sI've noticed said Miss Burreil, re-
turning his wink, that these medf-
c.nes were mostly plains water uncs
tured with few syrups or spices
Precisely" said Herd. Il knew you
must have But since you are from Miss
Crandall-it's all right: and the young
woman who travels with me constantly
really must be in my entire confidence
TO make a continuance of my activities
successful-so, for instance, that she
would not reveal that my medicines
are merely colored or spiced waters"
I'm sure" replied Miss Burrell.
''that you must understand that Miss
Crandall hinted to me that whatever
| saw or heard was to keep 1t abso-
lutely secret. But she did not go fur
ther than that"
"Of course" assented Isaac Herd.
Nervously, Miss Burrell Rugged her
secret for days-until the ship came
within wireless distance of New York.
When it did Tim" Donovan IN New
York received this message:
We arrive Thursday. He's your
man. False bottoms Of his medi-
cine bottles loaded with pearls and
diamonds. BURRELL.
If Isaac Herd had not heart failure.
as he pretended in the past, he GER
tainly gave lively sembiance of being
so afflicted when Inspector Tim
Donovan invaded the little mans cabin
and cracking the peculiarly thick and
Opaque bottoms of the bottles that he
yanked out of the medicine chest
poured from the broken bases into his
inspectors hat opalescent pearls and
sparkling diamonds-all in the value
of something more than 100000
"A precious kind of medicine ycu
seem to need" he observed to the :,
trapped smuggler; beautiful and pret-.
ty expensive pills. hey?"
1t was the aid of the physicians in
New York and Havre as well as the
false bottomed bottles that had made
Isaac Herd immune SO long from de-
lection, for even the secret agents did
not deduce the necessity of following
diamond and pearl dealers to the doors
OF their doctors. The doctor N Havre 4.
loaded the bottles with precious stones;
the doctor in New York carried away
with him the gems for the American
market.
Isaac Herd ruminated for a year and
half In Federal prison on the col
lapse OF what he had regarded as his
impenetrably subtle scheme