e and
the sibilant dialect. He seemed chained to that one torturing picture.
Even the prospect of finding the boy and so ending the suspense which
had battered Miss Arsdale's nerves for so long brought little relief.
He never could be needed again as he had been needed then. He might
even have been able to detain Arsdale and so have avoided this present
crisis. He felt all the pangs of an honest sentry who, asleep at his
post, awakes to the fact that the enemy has slipped by him in the night.

It was well within the hour when Chung's lieutenant glided in with a
message that brought a suave smile to the face of his master.

"Allee light," he announced, beaming upon Donaldson. "Gellelum
dlownslairs."

"You've found him!"

"In callage," nodded Chung, with the genial air of a clergyman after
completing a marriage ceremony.

Donaldson reached the carriage before Chung had descended the first
half-dozen steps. He opened the door and saw a limp, unkempt form
sprawled upon the seat. He recognized it instantly as Arsdale. But
the man was in no condition to be carried home. He must take him
somewhere and watch over him until he was in a more presentable shape.
But one place suggested itself,--his own apartments.

Donaldson paused. He must take this bedraggled, disheveled remnant of
a man to the rooms which stood for rich cleanliness. He must soil the
nice spotlessness of the retreat for which he had paid so dearly. In
view of the little he had so far enjoyed of his costly privileges, this
last imposition seemed like a grim joke.

"To the Waldorf," he ordered the driver with a smile.

He himself climbed up on the box where he could find fresh air. At the
hotel he bribed a bellboy to help him with the man to his room by way
of the servant's entrance. Then he telephoned for the hotel physician,
Dr. Seton.

Before the doctor arrived Donaldson managed to strip the clothes from
the senseless man and to roll him into bed. Then he sat down in a
chair and stared at him.

"It's an opium jag," he explained, as soon as Dr. Seton came in, "but
that is n't the worst feature of it. I 'm tied here to him until he
comes to. I can't tell you how valuable my time is to me. I want you
to take the most heroic measures to get him out of it as soon as
possible."

"Very well, we 'll clear his system of the poison. But we can't be too
violent. We must save his nerves."

"Damn his nerves," Donaldson exclaimed. "He doesn