Duncan is working in St. Barnabas hospital,Sydney,under fearsome Professor Beaumont and alongside the Australian answer to Bingham,Maurice Griffin. Dick Stuart-Clark is admitted as an amnesia sufferer,though this is a ploy,as he skipped St Swithins having sold off oxygen cylinders and is wanted in Sydney for not paying his hotel bill. Duncan takes him to see Beaumont about a job but before any deal can be reached Griffin,whose patient Dick is, has shoved a syringe full of sedatives up his bottom and knocked him cold.