The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-07-03
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TORS look changed Instantly to one OF
dire pcrpleXity
HE is not ill?" he questioned.
You mean"
"Conhdontially, Doctor" I admitted,
I'VE haven't the fantcst notion Just
how he is He may be in excellent
health or he may have ceased 70
exist"
Good Cod" he exclaimed, and his
face wns MS white as his linen.
Our best Information is that he Is
on stenmer-a tramp-bound for
China, but we have no particulars. and
worse stll. no verihcation."
II was neither fair nor consistent to
conceal longer from one 80 justly in.
terested the whole truth, and so. with
out reservation, ! told Dr. Addison the
story
Before ! had quite concluded, Miss
Clement was announced. and when
she was shown into the library. in
stead OF permitting the physician to
leave, az he made offer OF doing. |
presented him and insisted upon his
remaining.
81 want you TO tell Miss Clement
hbout your patient, Doctor" | said
Miss Clement is very good friend
OF Miss GraYson'B"
Graciously he complied. making It
quite clear that sedatives and sleep
would undoubtedly effect n prompt re.
coyery.
And now Miss Clement will tell us
something" added she has had a
patient, too, who died this morning, as
you may have seen by the afternoon
papcrs-thc Eurasan who was shot
by McNish"
Up 70 that moment knew but little
Of what Soy had diyulged, for the mis-
sionary, in her two or three brief tele.
phonlc talks, had given us scarcely
more than promises OF important rcyc.
lations when opportunity could be
made for a meeting; and ! was impa
uent for the fuliilment
She had chosen n scat NJ some little
distance from us, but now, at my so
I Ecitaton, she accepted n more com
Portable chair. which | placed in con
ndcntial juxtapositlon with our own
ITS rather o long story" she be
gan, in her 6woctly quiet voice. ANT
as II came to me piocemeal, I'm nfraiC
It will be rather disconnected. fot
see this poor fellow suffered horribly
at times and when he was not suffer
ing he was under the influence OF OPT
atcs, so ordinarily | doubt that Il
would be safe to accept az fact n goot
deal said under such circumstances. j
appears to me. however. that In hi'
case. these very conditions only
strengthen the probabilities; for hi
mind seemed TO hold only tho on'
theme. and his STATEMENTS could hard
ly have been either spontaneous o.
studied inventions. On the othe
hand, they were rather n sort OF invol
untary recital Of the particulars Of
subject which had ongrosscd him TO
years to the exclusion Of almost every
thing else"
, DR.. Addison nodded his head, on
C0uragingly. Il quite understand
Miss Clement" he said, And |, toe
assured her that her reasoning aT
pearod TO me logical.
1T was significant" she continued
that so far as could fix dates, h
made no references at all to any haI
, pcning prior TO sixteen years ago. TIL
, tragedy OF that time was the begir
ming OF what ! think | may call hi
mania. Everything he told me had {
do with It. II came at the beginning
at the apex, and at the end OF ever
revelation"
: THE tragedy Of sixteen years ago?
inquired the physician.
THE tragedy OF what has bee
called The Sable Lorcha " remin'
ed him.
"Oh, yes. Of course"
"You know Of that, them" aske
} Miss Clement. And briefly ran owe
what Yup Sing had told me.
o John Soy, | understand. was tn
G cook whom McNlsh imprisoned In tn
8 galley" added.
ut seems he broke his way out Jul
y as the lorcha was sinking. McNiH
had waited until he had gone to h
bunk for his usual hop. and hn
l. chosen the hour he was sleeping
o get away and scuttle the vessel. Fl
IS five days Soy foated about on bit
o wreckage without food or drink. ar
was finally picked up by a proa an
D. taken back to Macao at the mouth
:; the Canton river, where, after weel
OF delirium, he told his story OF Il
o, lorcha's fate. From that day the scare
n for McNish began II seems that
Ia had partner, an lrishman, nam,
Is Moran, who for time was suspect,
N of having been in the conspiracy; fc
10 you must remember, II was thoug
p. then that the sinking of the lorcha hi
y, been planned from the first. the i'd
being that II was simply scheme
get the passage money from tho po
y. coolies, and then drown them"
'Horriblei" calculated the ph
lg slclan
"Dut the Chinese are just" the IN
NJ sionary continued. "They discover
that certain United States cruis
that had been warned OF the attend
IN. ed smuggling, did, on that particul