"I don't like to have such things lying around loose," remarked
Kennedy, taking up his hat and coat with forced energy. "I think
we had better get it."

Elaine had spent rather a sleepless night after the attempt to
poison her which had miscarried and resulted in poisoning Kennedy.

To keep her mind off the thing, she had already started to take
down the decorations. Jennings and Marie, as well as a couple of
workmen, were restoring the library to its normal condition under
the direction of Aunt Josephine.

The telephone rang and Elaine answered it. Her face showed that
something startling had happened.

"It was Jameson," she cried, almost dropping the receiver,
overcome.

They all hurried to her. "He says that Mr. Kennedy and he were
visiting that Chinaman this morning and Mr. Kennedy suffered a
relapse--is dying there, in the Chinaman's apartment. He wants us
to come quickly and bring that medicine that they used last night.
He says it is on the tabaret in the library. Marie, will you look
for it? And, Jennings, get the car right away."

Jennings hurried from the room, and a moment later Marie had found
the bottle behind some ornaments on the tabaret and came back with
it.

Scarcely knowing what to do, Elaine, followed by Aunt Josephine,