CHAPTER XXI

NEARING A SOLUTION "How's the patient, doctor?" inquired the Paymaster-Commander, as the M.O. walked into the wardroom on the morning following the supposed Annesley's return to the _Hermione_. The doctor shook his head. "Interesting case, very," he replied. "From a professional point of view, of course. Short of giving him an overdose of morphia, I've done everything to induce him to sleep. Never came across an instance of a man with such a temperature.... I'll have to send a report to the _B.M.J._[#] And the…