“Do you know anything of the laws of lunacy?” asked Jones.
“Something.”
“I had a friend who was supposed to be suffering from mind trouble, two doctors doped him and put him away in an asylum—he was quite harmless.”
“What do you mean by doped him?” asked the other.
“Gave him a drug to quiet him, and then took him off in an automobile.”
“Was there money involved?”
“You may say there was. He was worth a million.”
“Anyone to benefit by his being put away?”
“Well, I expect one might make out a case of that; the family would have the handling of the million, wouldn’t they?”
“It all depends—but there’s one thing certain, there’d be a thundering law case for any clever solicitor to handle if the plaintiff were not too far gone in his mind to plead. Anyhow, the drugging is out of order—whole thing sounds fishy.”