[Illustration: Her eye returns in satisfaction to the glittering black granite letters over the portal.]

"A magnificent hospital," says an approving press, "the very dream of an intelligent philanthropy."

BOOK III
ROBERT CHALMERS

CHAPTER I
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

David Lockwin is not dead.

Look into his heart and see what was there while he sat beside Corkey on the lounge in the forecabin of the Africa.

The time has come for momentous action. It is settled that at the other end of this journey David Lockwin shall cease to exist. Now, how to do it.

He may commit suicide.

He may disappear.