I found you there, and this fellow Hobart with you." "But, Captain West, I never saw you; I never left the room in the third story where I was locked in, except when they took me away in a machine to the yacht." "You dropped a note in the alley, enclosed in a silver knife ?" "Yes, I did.

I dared not hope it would be found, but I took the chance.
Did you find it ?" "Sexton did, and that was what brought me here." "But it is all so strange," she exclaimed despairingly.

"How could I have done all these things, been in all these places, and yet know nothing about it?
Could I have been drugged?
or influenced in some way by those people?
I have read there is such a power--where one person can make another obey absolutely, with no knowledge of what he is doing; what do they call that ?" "Hypnotism.

I have seen it cut some odd capers; but I do not believe you were either hypnotized or drugged.

Good God; why did I not think of this solution before?
I must have been blind; that was not you; I can recall a hundred little things now to convince me." "What is it you mean ?" "Another woman played your part; a woman most wonderfully like you, even to the voice.