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"I want to find my brother, who has disappeared," said Tom. "You say you have searched through here?" "I have after a fashion." "You can go through, if you wish," said the doctor to the officer. "I reckon my brother is gone," went on Tom. "But this doctor helped the rascals who spirited him away." "I did absolutely nothing," cried Dr. Karley. "I am willing to aid you all I can. But I am innocent.
Karley led the way and took Tom through the sanitarium from top to bottom, even allowing him to peep into the rooms occupied by the "boarders," as the medical man called them. Of course there was no trace of Dick. "Now I trust you are satisfied," said the doctor, when they were again at the front door. "I am not satisfied about that carriage affair," returned Tom, as bluntly as ever.
There was no answer to the summons, and then Tom gave the bell knob a jerk which nearly broke it off. A second-story window was thrown open with a bang. "I want you boys to go away!" came in angry tones. "And I want you to come down and let us in," retorted Tom. "I won't let you in. I've told you all I know, and that is the end of it." "It's not the end of it, Dr. Karley.
Karley's Private Sanitarium was on the outskirts of Cleveland, and it took half an hour to reach it. It was an old-fashioned building surrounded by a high board fence. Entering the grounds, Arnold Baxter ascended the piazza and rang the bell. A negro answered the summons, and ushered him into a dingy parlor. Soon Dr. Karley, a dried-up, bald-headed, old man appeared.
When they reached the sanitarium they found the building dark, with the shutters on the ground floor tightly closed. Dr. Karley answered Tom's summons in person. "Yes, the parties were here," he said smoothly. "But I could not accommodate them, and so they went elsewhere." "Elsewhere?" echoed Tom. "Exactly, sir." "But our coach driver says they got off here. He was the one who brought them."
Karley elevated his shaggy eyebrows in well-assumed surprise. "I am bound to find my brother, and if you know anything more you had better tell me," went on Tom bluntly. The random shaft struck home, and the old doctor started back in dismay. "Why er surely you do not er suspect me of ahem of anything wrong?" he stammered. "I want to get at the truth. Which way did they go when they drove off?"
The little old doctor bobbed his head. "I will go out and see him," he said. Quarter of an hour later found Dick in an upper room of the sanitarium, lying on a comfortable bed, and with Dr. Karley caring for him. In the meantime Arnold Baxter had gone out and paid the coach driver. "Do you generally stand down by the docks?" he asked. "No, sir; my stand is uptown," was the reply.
Karley at hand, ready to give him some nourishing food. The doctor had just come from a long talk with Arnold Baxter, and it may as well be stated that the two men understood each other pretty thoroughly. "Where am I?" he asked, in a fairly strong voice. "Safe," said the old doctor soothingly. "Here, take this. It will do you a whole lot of good." "Are my brothers around?"
"And what can I do for you, sir?" he asked, in a squeaky voice. "Just the man I wanted to meet," thought Arnold Baxter. He was a good reader of character, and saw that Dr. Karley would do almost anything for money. The doctor's sanitarium was of a "shady" character.
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