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I
will
make
all
clear
.
The
Prime
Minister
was
in
his
car
,
his
secretary
beside
him
.
Suddenly
a
pad
of
chloroform
is
clapped
on
his
face
But
by
whom
?
By
the
clever
linguistic
Captain
Daniels
.
As
soon
as
the
Prime
Minister
is
unconscious
,
Daniels
picks
up
the
speaking
-
tube
,
and
directs
O
Murphy
to
turn
to
the
right
,
which
the
chauffeur
,
quite
unsuspicious
,
does
.
A
few
yards
down
that
unfrequented
road
,
a
large
car
is
standing
,
apparently
broken
down
.
Its
driver
signals
to
O
Murphy
to
stop
.
O
Murphy
slows
up
.
The
stranger
approaches
.
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Daniels
leans
out
of
the
window
,
and
,
probably
with
the
aid
of
an
instantaneous
anæsthetic
,
such
as
ethylchloride
,
the
chloroform
trick
is
repeated
.
In
a
few
seconds
,
the
two
helpless
men
are
dragged
out
and
transferred
to
the
other
car
,
and
a
pair
of
substitutes
take
their
places
.
Impossible
!
Pas
du
tout
!
Have
you
not
seen
music
-
hall
turns
imitating
celebrities
with
marvellous
accuracy
?
Nothing
is
easier
than
to
personate
a
public
character
.
The
Prime
Minister
of
England
is
far
easier
to
understudy
than
Mr
.
John
Smith
of
Clapham
,
say
.
As
for
O
Murphy
s
double
,
no
one
was
going
to
take
much
notice
of
him
until
after
the
departure
of
the
Prime
Minister
,
and
by
then
he
would
have
made
himself
scarce
.
He
drives
straight
from
Charing
Cross
to
the
meeting
-
place
of
his
friends
.
He
goes
in
as
O
Murphy
,
he
emerges
as
some
one
quite
different
.
O
Murphy
has
disappeared
,
leaving
a
conveniently
suspicious
trail
behind
him
.
But
the
man
who
personated
the
Prime
Minister
was
seen
by
every
one
!
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He
was
not
seen
by
anyone
who
knew
him
privately
or
intimately
.
And
Daniels
shielded
him
from
contact
with
anyone
as
much
as
possible
.
Moreover
,
his
face
was
bandaged
up
,
and
anything
unusual
in
his
manner
would
be
put
down
to
the
fact
that
he
was
suffering
from
shock
as
a
result
of
the
attempt
upon
his
life
.
Mr
.
MacAdam
has
a
weak
throat
,
and
always
spares
his
voice
as
much
as
possible
before
any
great
speech
.
The
deception
was
perfectly
easy
to
keep
up
as
far
as
France
.
There
it
would
be
impracticable
and
impossible
so
the
Prime
Minister
disappears
.
The
police
of
this
country
hurry
across
the
Channel
,
and
no
one
bothers
to
go
into
the
details
of
the
first
attack
.
To
sustain
the
illusion
that
the
abduction
has
taken
place
in
France
,
Daniels
is
gagged
and
chloroformed
in
a
convincing
manner
.
And
the
man
who
has
enacted
the
part
of
the
Prime
Minister
?