The doctor in his visit that
afternoon had urged Miss Drayton to go to Paris as soon as possible and
put Mrs. Patterson under charge of the physician whom he had before
recommended.
"If any one can help her, he is the man," said Dr. Foster.
"'If!' Is it so serious?" faltered Miss Drayton.
The doctor hesitated. Then he said: "We must hope for the best. Your
sister may get on nicely."
"Is her throat worse?" asked Miss Drayton.
"I--er-r--I prefer to have you consult Dr. La Farge," replied the
doctor.
It was resolved, then, to go to Paris at once. While Miss Drayton was
packing, the American mail came in, and brought a letter from New York
police headquarters. The officer, whose interest in the case had led him
to push his inquiries as far as possible, wrote at length. In the
investigation of the Stuyvesant Trust Company, accused of violating the
Anti-Trust Law, certain business papers had been secured which proved
that Mr. Carey Mayo had taken trust funds, speculated in cotton futures,
lost heavily during a panic, and covered his misuse of the company's
funds by falsifying his accounts. Evidently it had been a mere
speculation not a deliberate theft.
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