The Forrest City times., 1913-07-04
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 "Confdentially. Doctor" I admitted. we haven't the faintest notion Just how he is. He may be in excellent health or he may have ceased to exist"
 Good God,' he exclaimed, and his face was as white as his linen
 Our best information is that he is on steamer-a trRmp-bound for China, but We have no particulars. and worse still, no yerihcaton
 lt was neither fair nor consistent 10 conceal longer from one so justly ln terested the whole truth. and so. with out reservation, | told pr. Addison the story
 Before had quite concluded, Mss 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
 eI want you to tell Miss Clement about your patient Doctor" said Miss Clement Is very good friend of Miss Grayson's
 Graeiously he complied making it quite clear that sedatiyes and sleep would undoubtedly effect prompt re- eoverY \
 And now Miss Clement will teu us something l added She has had a patient. too. who died this morning as you may have seen by the afternoon papers the Furasian who was shot by McNish.
 |. D to that moment knew but Ittje of what Soy had divulged, for the mis. sionary, in hef two or three brlef tele- phonic talks had given us scarcely more than promises Of important reye- lations when opportunity could be made for meeting; and vas impa- tient for the fulfilment
 She had chosen a seat al some litfla distance from us. but now. at ny so. licitation. she accepted more com fortable chalr. which placed in con identIal juXtaposition with our own.
 Its rather a long story" sine be gan, in her sw"etly quiet voice And as 1t came to me plecemeaI m afraid f will be rather disconnected You sec this poor fellow suffered horribly al times and when he Nas not suffer Ing he was under tho influence of opi- ates, so ordinarily I doubt that it would be safe to accept as fact good deal said under such circumstances IL appears 10 me. however that in hls ease, 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 or studied inventions On tho other hand, they were rather sort of inyol- untary recital of the particulars of subject which had engrossed him for years to the exclusion of almost every thing else
 Dr. Addison nodded hls head en. couragingly T quite understand, Miss Clement he said. And l. too. assured her that her reasoning ap- poared 10 me logical.
 "It was significant" she continued. that so far as 1 could fix dates. he made no references at all 10 any hap pening prior 10 sixteen years ago. The tragedy of that time was the begin ming of what ! think I may call his mania. Everything he told me had to do with it. It came at the beginning. at the apex. and at the end of every revelation"
 The tragedy of sixteen years ago'" inquired the physician
 The tragedy of what has been called The Sable Lorcha. remind ed him.
 "Oh, yes, of course"
 You know of that, them" asked Miss Clement. And briefly ran over what Yup Sing had told me,
 John Soy, I understand was the cook whom McNIsh Imprisoned Tn the galley" I added
 Tt seems he broke his way out just as the lorcha was sinking, McNish had waited until he had gone to hls bunk for his usual hop. and had chosen the hour he was sleeping to get away and scuttle the vessel For 'i'N Ntf 9 '''t 'tNHlfk AbOuL OH h DlI OI wreckage without food or drink, and was finally picked up by a proa and taken back 10 Maeao at the mouth of the Canton river, where. after weeks of delirium, he told hls story of the lorchas fate From that day the search for NcNish began. It seems that he had partner. an lrishman. named Moran, who for time was suspected of having been in the conspiracy, for. you must remember. 1t was thought then that the sinking of the loreha had been planned from the first. the idea being that it was simply q scheme To get the passage money from the poor coolles, and then drown them
 Horrible" calculated the phy- sician
 But the Chinese are just" the mls- sionary continued They discovered that a certain United States cruiser that had been warned of the attempt ed smuggling, did, on that particular day, give chase to a lorcha, which eventually disappeared in the fog So