"Glad to be out of that--for this time, anyway!" he said, with an air of
relief. "There's too much atmosphere of murder and mystery--what they call
Oriental mystery--for me in there, Mr. Rubinstein! Now then, there's
something we can do, at once. Did I understand you to say these two were
medical students at University College?"
"So Mr. Penniket said," replied Melky. "S'elp me! I never heard of 'em
till this afternoon!"
"You're going to hear a fine lot about 'em before long, anyway!" remarked
Ayscough.
"Well--we'll just drive on to Gower Street--somebody'll know something
about 'em there, I reckon."
He walked forward until he came to the cab-rank at the foot of St. John's
Wood Road, where he bundled Melky into a taxi-cab, and bade the driver get
away to University College Hospital at his best pace. There was little
delay in carrying out that order, but it was not such an easy task on
arrival at their destination to find any one who could give Ayscough the
information he wanted. At last, after they had waited some time in a
reception room a young member of the house-staff came in and looked an
enquiry.
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