Old King Brady shot the bolt and threw back the door, which was not locked. Ah Lung was sitting up leaning on Harry. He certainly was a horrible looking object with his face all bathed in blood. "Not dead!" exclaimed Old King Brady. "Not dead, but in a mighty bad way," gasped Lung. "The princess!" he added. "I see you have Miss Montgomery all right." "I'm sorry to say we have seen nothing of the princess," replied the old detective. "I haven't had time to ask Miss Montgomery about her yet. What has become of her, Alice?" "Dr. Garshaski carried her off," replied Alice. "Did--did she give away what he wanted to know?" asked Ah Lung. "I'm afraid she did. They tortured the poor creature terribly." "We must get you out of here without delay, Ah Lung," interrupted the old detective. "As for the rest it will have to keep. Where shall we take you--home?" "Wait," said Ah Lung. "Connected with this place is a club of which I am a member. I have a room here where I sometimes sleep. Take me there first and go for Dr. Gim Suey on Sacramento street." "Oh, you better have an American doctor," protested Harry. "Not at all," replied Ah Lung, decidedly. "I have doctored both ways, I greatly prefer the Chinese treatment. Dr. Gim Suey will save my life if it can be saved." CHAPTER X. TREASURE HUNTING. Harry and Detective Leggett carried Ah Lung out into the long corridor head and heels. Here they ran into a bunch of Chinks just coming out of the main club room. There were friends of Ah Lung's among them, and a tremendous pow-wow and excitement followed, all in Chinese. Alice explained that it was partly sympathy, partly indignation against Dr. Garshaski, who was a club member, and partly about the presence of detectives in the House of the Seven Delights. Ah Lung quieted them, however. "Leave me now," he said. "I am in the hands of my friends. They will do all for me that can be done. They are not willing that you should enter the club room." So the detectives were escorted back to earth by the way Old King Brady and Leggett had come down into these lower regions and glad enough they were to find themselves safe on China alley. Parting from Leggett, they started, reaching it shortly before midnight. Alice was so exhausted that Old King Brady insisted that she should postpone her story till morning. "I don't know that it will do any good to tell it now," she said. "But I must give you a hint. There is buried or hidden money at the bottom of all this business." "Yes, yes, I know," said Old King Brady. "I heard Garshaski call out about it. Do you know where the hiding place is?" "In an old house down by the North Beach." "Does he know?" "He does. He has had plenty of time to get there and get the treasure if it still exists." "If that is the case," said the old detective, "then I think the best thing that all of us can do is to go to bed."