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 Evelyn asked him to be seated and l drew out & chair for him. And how do you find the patient :" l Inquired when he had sat down. Quite normal in every respect save one. He Is in highly nervous state. He Is endeavoring to maintain the fic- tion that he is the gentleman we sup. posed he was. He evidently learned his lesson from Mir. Bryan, before we suspected anything. It Is really won- derful how well he does it. consider. ing that he never saw the man he Is trying to impersonate But he must know that he has been discovered. He certainly knows have this letter"
 A desperate man will battle against the most overwhelming odds" Dr. Mas sey observed, and he Is a desperate man"
 You gave no sign that you knew 2" Evelyn asked
 Not the slightest, I pretended that l believed him Mir Cameron" But MT. Bryan must have" began.
 On the contrary" said the doctor, NIT. Bryan knows him only as the MT. Cameron he has nursed from the first. He would be the last man to in- dicate to his patient knowledge of anything untoward."
 Miss Grayson and I were just dis cussing a course of action when you arrived, Doctor" I explained, but had reached no conclusion. Last night arranged with Yup Sing, who is prob ably the most prominent and best edu- cated Chinaman 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 warrant for McNish's arrest Now if We give him up, what will be the result? He will still maintain that he IS Cameron In spite of our knowl- cage to the contrary. Yup Sing and ms clan will insist that he Is right ana that we are wrong, and our chances Of finding Cameron will dvin- dle. It isn't reasonable to expect that those engaged in the abduction plot VIII confess to their error and inform us as to Cameron's place of detention is it?"
 Dr Massey knitted his brow behind the bow of his glasses and rursed his thin lips.
 We are certainly confronted by a l very trying complication" he admitted with characteristic gravity.
 Miss Grayson has suggested that We send McNish abroad-at once, on steamer sailing this morning"
 MT. Bryan could go with him." Evelyn volunteered
 If the United States authorities have a 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 ac- curacy of this deduction. And the newspapers" added,
 would be sure to publish columns of speculation. .. If We could only wiring an admission from McNish 1t "ouiu sihpily matters. Isn't there some one you could confront him with?" Dr. Massey ask ed. and hope rose within me at the suggestion
 As far as I can make out, from what O'Hara tells me-" was my re- joinder, the police have in custody now the Eurasian cook who, I believe, has been McNish's Nemesis these six teen years. If 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?"
 "Or have the Euraslan brought i here"
 And so, ultimately through the of | fees of O'Hara. who all this time had l been awaiting me in the tonneau of my car which still stood at the door, John Soy. accompanied by two plain i clothes men from the Detective Bu- reau, was brought from the Tombs to that sumptuous home on upper Fifth i avenue.
 say ultimately" because his com 1 ing was delayed beyond all patience. 1 Hour after hour passed. The morn i ing dragged by with periodic tele- l phone excuses from O'Hara The hearing was in progress before the police magistrate. . Soy had been l held for the grand jury. The mag | istrate would have to sign a permit and he could not be approached until | he came off the bench. Soy had gone to the Tombs The warden was at luncheon and could not be seen for half an hour.
 Meanwhile Dr. Massey, impelled by 1 the necessities of his practice, had departed, and Yup Sing and the vice consul. Chen Mok. had arrived and been relegated to the reception room. l To my relief. Checkabeedy reported that they were unsccompanied Mean while, too. Evelyn had received a call from Miss Clement and had learned with some dismay that the mission ! k~ \. 4 Hzsa L