e another door. They
brought me in there. I was rather queer and only half knew what was
up."

We looked and saw a door where he said. Pushing the bed aside, we
opened it, and found ourselves on the back staircase of the premises.
Clearly the President had noiselessly opened this door and got out.
But how had Carr got in without noise?

The sentry came up, and said:

"Every five minutes, sir, I looked and saw him on the bed. He lay for
the first hour in his clothes. The next look, he was undressed. It
struck me he'd been pretty quick and quiet about it, but I thought no
more."

"Depend upon it, the dressed man was the President, the undressed man
Carr! When was that?"

"About half-past two, sir; just after the doctor came."

"The doctor!" we cried.

"Yes, sir; Dr. Anderson."

"You never told me he had been here."

"He never went into the President's--into General Whittingham's room,
sir; but he came in here for five minutes, to get some brandy, and
stood talking with us for a time. Half an hour after he came in for
some more."

We began to see how it was done. That wretched little doctor was in
the plot. Somehow or other he had communicated with the President;
probably he knew of the door. Then, I fancied, they must have worked
something in this way. The doctor comes in to distract the sentries,
while his Excellency moves the bed. Finding that they took a look
every five minutes, he told the President. Then he went and got Johnny
Carr ready. Returning, he takes the President's place on the bed, and
in that character undergoes an inspection. The moment this is over, he
leaps up and goes out. Between them they bring in Carr, put him into
bed, and slip out through the narrow space of open door behind the
bedstead. When all was done, the doctor had come back to see if any
suspicion had been aroused.

"I have it now!" cried the colonel. "That infernal doctor's done us
both. He couldn't get Whittingham out of the house without leave, so
he's taken him as Carr! Swindled me into giving my leave. Ah, look
out, if we meet, Mr. Doctor!"

We rushed out of the house and found this conjecture was true. The man
who purported to be Carr had been carried out, enveloped in blankets,
just as we sat down to breakfast; the doctor had put him into the
carriage, followed himself, and driven rapidly away.

"Which way did they go?"

"Toward the harbor, sir," the sentry replied.

The harbor could be reached in twenty minute