They did so and it was not until the next morning at breakfast in the private parlor of the detective's suite that Alice's story was told. We need only take it up at the scene in the torture room when the princess fainted and Alice thought her dead. "They ran me out then," she said, "so I don't know exactly what the yellow fiends did to her after that. "They tied me to the chair and I think Garshaski meant mischief. "After a little he brought the princess into the room and laid her on the bed. She was in a dreadful condition, but she was game still. She had not given the secret away. I begged Garshaski to untie me and allow me to attend to her, but he wouldn't hear to it. "'She'll come around all right,'" he declared; adding: "'And for your interference you have to suffer, Alice. I will make you feel sorry you ever insulted me in the way you did.' He then left us, and I tried to question the princess, but she would not talk about herself. "'Listen, Alice,' she said. 'That fiend has killed my cousin Wang Foo. He told me so. He means to kill me, I know it, but I will never tell him where my grandfather hid his money. I will tell you, though, for you may live to get out of this and I want you, if you do, to go and get that money and give it to Ah Lung. Promise me that.' "I gave her the promise and asked how much the money amounted to. "She declared that her grandfather's letter did not state. "She then went on to tell me that it was hidden under the headstone of an old house near the North Beach, the location of which she described so carefully that I am sure I can find it. It appears that her grandfather, although he lived in Chinatown, carried on business in this house selling cigars, soda water and so on, probably doing a little opium smuggling on the sly." "Let's see!" exclaimed Old King Brady. "What was the old fellow's name again? I heard Garshaski speak it, but I forget." "His name was Gong Schow," Alice replied. "Why, I knew him!" cried the old detective. "Of course, he smuggled opium. The cigar and soda water business was only a blind. I can locate that house if you can't Alice. But do you suppose it is still standing?" "The princess thinks so at all events. That is all I know about it." "Very likely it is then. We must go down there at once. On the way we will look in at Lung & Lung's and learn how it fares with Garshaski's unfortunate victim." "Go on with your story," said Harry. "There is little more to tell," replied Alice. "Garshaski must have had his ear at some listening hole, for he now burst in on us and, gagging me carried Skeep Hup off, declaring that he had heard all." And this ended what Alice had to say. They started away right after breakfast. Meanwhile Old King Brady called up Mr. Narraway on the telephone and suggested--for he was in no position to order it--the immediate arrest of Volckman.