intended recipient did not benefit by it.

Doctor Mack had to wait over at a junction for three hours, owing to
some irregularities of the trains, and did not reach Euclid till
rather a late hour in the afternoon. He went to the Euclid Hotel, and
entered his name,
E. MACK, Albany,
without adding M.D., and substituting Albany for the small village,
thirty miles away, where he made his home.

"Strategy, doctor, strategy!" he said to himself, "I have come to spy
out the land, and must not make myself too conspicuous. I am
traveling, as it were, incognito."




CHAPTER II

DR. MACK GETS SOME INFORMATION


The Euclid Hotel was distant about half a mile from the college
buildings. It would hardly have paid expenses but for the patronage it
received from the parents and friends of the students, who, especially
on public occasions, were drawn to visit Euclid, and naturally put up
at the hotel. Then the students, tired, perhaps, of the fare at the
college commons, dropped in often and ordered a dinner. So, take it
all in all, Euclid Hotel benefited largely by the presence of the
college. No students, however, were permitted to board there, as it