the stuff a week--but I preferred to come to the doctor's office
where I could find you both."

Kennedy had firmly twisted her wrist until, with a little scream
of pain, she let go the door handle. Then he gently pushed her
aside, and the next instant Craig had his hand inside the collar
of Dr. Coleman, society physician, proprietor of the Coleman
Chemical Works downtown, the real leader of the drug gang that was
debauching whole sections of the metropolis.




CHAPTER XXVIII

THE FAMILY SKELETON


Surprised though we were at the unmasking of Dr. Coleman, there
was nothing to do but to follow the thing out. In such cases we
usually ran into the greatest difficulty--organized vice. This was
no exception.

Even when cases involved only a clever individual or a prominent
family, it was the same. I recall, for example, the case of a
well-known family in a New York suburb, which was particularly
difficult. It began in a rather unusual manner, too.

"Mr. Kennedy--I am ruined--ruined."