“Not Doctor Ryder!” Millman gasped.
“You have named the culprit.”
“But he’s poisoned, in the hospital——”
Grover went right on, ignoring Ellison’s shout.
“He confused us by ‘stealing’ the rats, and in other ways, because he wanted us to think of every possibility but the real one.”
“And that was?——” prompted Hope.
“He wanted us to help him take a false imitation of the Eye of Om to a Tibetan temple, replace it for the true one, which he could then sell for a great sum. In other words, what we thought we were doing, helping restore the true jewel, was exactly the reverse!
“We innocently helped remove the True Eye of Om!”
Chapter 40
THE MYSTERY WIZARD’S SOLUTION
While the beast shackled in the chair kept up its hoarse growls and struggles, Grover outlined, for the benefit—it seemed—of a kangaroo—or the one in the chair—his deductions.