is this: It took all my money to pay for the supper, and yet I
wake up with a first-class ticket to Panama and in possession of
one of the best suites on the ship. It's a problem play."

"You say you were sick afterward?"

"WAS I?" Kirk turned his eyes upon the speaker, mournfully. "My
head isn't right yet."

"You were drugged," said the woman.

"By Jove!" He straightened up in his chair. "Knockouts!"

"Exactly. Some one drugged you and bought a ticket--"

"Wait! I'm beginning to see. It was Locke. That's how I got his
name. This is his ticket. Oh! There's going to be something doing
when I get back."

"What?"

"I don't know yet, but I'm going to sit right here and brood upon
some fitting revenge. After that chap gets out of the hospital--"

"You did not impress me as a college student," said the stranger.

"I'm not. I graduated four years ago. I barely made it, but I did
get through."

"And you have never been to the tropics?"