She did, indeed.
Harry's anxiety would have been more intense even than it was could he have suspected the truth.
But there was no possible reason why he should suspect it. He believed this man to be in China or Japan.
The story is this:
About two years before it became necessary in a certain case to engage a detective who could speak both Chinese and Japanese.
Such a combination is much rarer than might be supposed.
Old King Brady applied to the Secret Service people, for it was on their work that the man was needed.
They had such a person in stock, it seemed, and Dr. Garshaski, born of a Japanese father and a Chinese mother in the city of Shanghai, was sent to New York to co-operate with the Brady Bureau.
They won out in the case all right, but they got more than they bargained for in this man, who really was a doctor and a graduate of a New England medical college.
From the very outset he began making love to Alice, and in the most extravagant fashion.