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Before me sat Doddridge Knapp, the King of the Street, the man for whom above all others in the world I felt loathing and fear.

The place looked as though it had belonged to a lawyer in reduced circumstances, and I could but wonder how it had come into the possession of Doddridge Knapp, and what had become of its former occupant.

Plainly it was not a good place to spend the night should Doddridge Knapp care to engineer another case of mysterious disappearance.

And what motive could there be that would reconcile the Doddridge Knapp who sought the life of Henry Wilton, with the Doddridge Knapp of this morning, who was ready to engage him in his confidential business?

And even if I could take his place, how was I to serve the mysterious employer and Doddridge Knapp at the same time, when Doddridge Knapp was ready to murder me to gain the Unknown's secret.

The killing of the Chinaman might have been something to my hand, but if Doddridge Knapp had such a perfect alibi it was a waste of time to look into it.

Then I began to realize that I was outrageously hungry, and I remembered that I should be at the office by nine to receive the commands of Doddridge Knapp, should he choose to send them.

By my watch it was close on nine o'clock, and Doddridge Knapp might even now be making his way to the office where he had stationed me.

Before me stood Doddridge Knapp, his face pale as the face of a corpse, and his eyes starting as though the dead had risen before him.

I felt convinced that Doddridge Knapp was the mover in the plots that sought my life.

I recalled that Doddridge Knapp had given me a cipher with which he would communicate with me, and I believed, moreover, that he had no idea where I might be at the present moment.

Plainly, if Doddridge Knapp was needing Omega stock he would have to pay for it.

It was in cipher, but it yielded to the key with which Doddridge Knapp had provided me.

The office furnished as convenient a place for homicidal diversions as he could wish, if these were in his intention, and possibly a visit to Doddridge Knapp in his own house would give me a better clue to his habits and purposes, and a better chance of bringing home to him his awful crime, than a month together on the Street.

Doddridge Knapp's house fronted upper Pine Street much as Doddridge Knapp himself fronted lower Pine Street.