"Dear Sir: Yours receipted. I shall be ready for you at 2 thirty. All serene. R. Volckman."
"This settles it," muttered the old detective. "Volckman has been standing in with these opium smugglers all right, and the doctor is in the deal. I shall arrest the man on sight."
He ran over the other letters.
All related to the landing of the smuggled opium.
In one Volckman agreed to furnish boats to the Chinese smugglers, with men to take charge of them.
The other was a demand to know when and where he could meet Dr. Garshaski.
There was no mention of the Chinese princess nor of Alice.
Old King Brady pocketed the letters and proceeded to examine a trunk, which he opened with a skeleton key.
Here he found other letters and photographs of several Chinese and Japanese women.
All the letters appeared to be in these languages, as the old detective hastily ran over them.