and hastily stuffed several blank sheets of paper into his pocket.

"Of course I need hardly caution you in handling this," remarked
Dr. Ross, as he returned. "You are as well acquainted as I am with
the danger attending its careless and unscientific uses." "I am,
and I thank you very much," said Kennedy.

We were standing in the waiting-room.

"You will keep me advised of any progress you make in the case?"
the doctor asked. "It complicates, as you can well imagine, my
treatment of Mrs. Maitland."

"I shall be glad to do so," replied Kennedy, as we departed.

An hour later found us in a handsomely appointed bachelor
apartment in a fashionable hotel overlooking the lower entrance to
the Park.

"Mr. Masterson, I believe?" inquired Kennedy, as a slim, debonair,
youngish-old man entered the room in which we had been waiting.

"I am that same," he smiled. "To what am I indebted for this
pleasure?"

We had been gazing at the various curios with which he had made
the room a veritable den of the connoisseur.

"You have evidently travelled considerably," remarked Kennedy,
avoiding the question for the time.