"In an old house down by the North Beach."
"Does he know?"
"He does. He has had plenty of time to get there and get the treasure if it still exists."
"If that is the case," said the old detective, "then I think the best thing that all of us can do is to go to bed."
They did so and it was not until the next morning at breakfast in the private parlor of the detective's suite that Alice's story was told.
We need only take it up at the scene in the torture room when the princess fainted and Alice thought her dead.
"They ran me out then," she said, "so I don't know exactly what the yellow fiends did to her after that.
"They tied me to the chair and I think Garshaski meant mischief.
"After a little he brought the princess into the room and laid her on the bed. She was in a dreadful condition, but she was game still. She had not given the secret away. I begged Garshaski to untie me and allow me to attend to her, but he wouldn't hear to it.
"'She'll come around all right,'" he declared; adding: