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some one-a p~ickpocket. they say,
who had taken your watch"
do they say that?" I asked, inter.
ested.
THAT is what Miss Clement learn
ed"
Miss Clement" I queried. who
is Miss Clement"
"Oh. I forgot that you don't know.
Miss Clement is the missionary who
found you in the-is 1t hop Joint
they call It'll"
THE lady with the kind eyes?"
At my designation her face bright
ened respectively.
"You remember her, then!" she
cried. delightedly. Hasn't she kind
eyes? And she doesn't belle them,
either. She's Just the dearest. most
self.sacrificing creature I ever knew"
For the moment we had both for
gotten Mrs. Lancaster. and when I
would have %apologized I found that
my nurse had carried her OF into tho
next room and was interestedly show.
ing her some framed photographs Of
the Siena cathedral.
And Miss Clement learned that I
pursued q p~ickpocket7" I went on,
when Evelyn had drawn a chair near
me and sat down. "A very clever
explanation to account for the disap-
pearance Of my watch, but not the
true one. As q matter of fact, the
Doroon I fol1ouoA u,oo a ~1oovoo~< ~
a deeper dye. When I last saw him,
previous to this encounter. he was
known 40 Peter Johnson"
Wideeyed, the girl stared at me for
an instant.
peter Johnson!" she repeated,
slowly. 80. I was right. He was in
the plot. He had something to do
with Uncle Roberts disappearance.
He was the one who broke the amyl
pearls on board the yacht"
It was my turn now to start. OF
what was this young woman talking?
"Amyl pearls!" Was I mad, or was
she?
She saw my perplexity. and hasten
ed to enlighten me.
"Oh. dear, Philip" she exclaimed.
Il forgot again. There is 30 much to
tell you. Really, I hardly know where
to begin. Miss Clement has been of
such aid to US! She is what they call
an independent missionary That is,
she has no a~flliation with any Of the
church societies or reform associa-
tons. For fifteen years she has been
working in Chinatown among the
white women, and she knows the
place and the people as If she were
indeed one Of them. l had her out at
Cragholt for a day and I've seen her
four or five times here In town, and I
have told her everything. and she has
explained, OF at least given quite rea-
sonable surmises, concerning many Of
the incidents that seemed to US mex
plicable. Did you ever hear Of amyl
pearls!"
OF our I had heard something Of
.amyl pearls, and l said 60.
They are glass capsules" I added,
land contain a liquid which smells
like bananas. They use them, l b.
heve. In heart attacks, by crushing
them In a handkerchief and inhaling
the drug"
But it was not the same drug, Eve.
Ign explained. Miss Clement had told
her all about it. She doubted that it
wal an amyl. at all. though 1t was put
up In the same fashion. and released
In the same way, and 1t was like an
amyl, In that It was extremely vola.
tile. 4
Miss Clement has never seen one
Of Them" Evelyn continued. "but
some Of the Chinese have told her of
them. and of the. wonders that they
perform. She says the chemical.
whatever 1t Is. IL very expensive and
so they are seldom used. but that in
China. especially in secret govern
ment enterprises. they are employed
on occasion. The effect is seemingly
to make invisible the person who
uses them. Really. they don't do any
thing of the sort: for they are moth
ing more nor less than capsules. filed
with a peculiarly-acting anesthetic-
an anesthetic so quick and powerful
~ = 0~IAOA that IAlo vAClAm 1hA40 lulO
insensibility without warning. and
energies. after an interval Of ten or
twelve minutes. without knowing that
he lost consciousness or that more
than a single second has elapsed"
"The idea seems ingenious" I re.
turned. I was interested. surely, but
very far from convinced. But" I
objected, how is 1t that the anaes-
thetizer is not anaesthetized himself1"
"Oh. he doesn't break the pearls un-
der his W nose." Evelyn explained.
He casts them. The slightest con-
cussion fractures the shell, and every
one within . certain radius drops In.
stantly into q temporary trance"
And the swine before whom the
pearls are cast. do they drop to the
ground to rise again when tho ten or
twelve minutes are concludedr' I
ridtculed.
"Oh. not at all. Your muscles are
not relaxed. You stand or cit as If
turned suddenly to stone. II your arm
10 extended. for instance. it remains
in that position until the effect
ceases." She was very much in earn
est, and tried to persuade me that.