had rushed from the house, hatless and coatless, just as the car
swung around from the garage in the rear. Jennings went out with
the wraps. They seized them and leaped into the car, which started
off swiftly.

It was only a matter of minutes when they pulled up before the
apartment house where Wu had taken the suite from which Long Sin
had telephoned the message in my name. Together Elaine and Aunt
Josephine hurried in.

. . . . . . .

Kennedy went directly from the laboratory to the Dodge house.

I don't think I ever saw such an expression of surprise on
anybody's face as that on Jennings's when he opened the door and
saw us. He was aghast. Back of him we could see Marie. She looked
as if she had seen a ghost.

"Is Miss Elaine in?" asked Kennedy.

Jennings was even too dumfounded to speak.

"Why, what's the matter?" demanded Kennedy.

"Then--er--you are not ill again?" he managed to blurt out.

"Ill again?" repeated Kennedy.

"Why," explained Jennings, "didn't Mr. Jameson just now telephone