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 Captain Collyer obeyed the sexton and cried: "Clegg, I arrest you in the name of the King!" and coming forward he laid his hand upon the Doctor's shoulder. But the Doctor did not move. The captain shook him, but he did not move. Then the captain put his hand upon the white hair and the hand was covered with something white.

"My God!" he cried. "He's nailed to the table. It's not Syn! It's Morgan Walters. Where's that damned sexton?"

But the sexton had disappeared, and Clegg had gone, and there, with three nails driven, one through the neck and one through each arm, driven right through into the table, lay the theatrical figure of Morgan Walters, in all points resembling Doctor Syn.