It turns out that the pilot on the expedition did not die as they supposed. He is in league with Willy Castello, who is a servant in the doctor's household. While Luke is searching the grounds for evidence, he is hit over the head. He tells Withers he thinks the poison was in the drinking water all along. Withers follows Luke and Long as they leave, and has Luke's room searched. While the search is going on, Withers keeps Luke busy talking about the murder, and Luke is progressing in unraveling it. They go to the room of John Dilson, the photographer on the expedition. When they get there, he has been knocked out. He shows them the film of the expedition. Then they hear knocking in the closet. It is Long, who had slipped into the room before Withers and Luke, but got tied up by another intruder. A car drives off, and they give chase. When they get to Luke's apartment, his servant has captured one of Withers' men.
The next morning Withers and Luke go to see Long, and she admits that she works for the Chinese government. She has been spent to find a scroll that told the secret to the Temple of Eternal Fire, where oil kept a fire going and would indicate a large field. They trace the call which went to Dilson the previous night that made him leave long enough for the intruder to get into his rooms. They locate the phone in a phoney chop suey parlor. The crooks flee into a boat, but Withers learns about the connection of Castello with the chop suey joint. However, Castello is poisoned with the same substance that killed Miller. Luke puts out a phoney news flash that the pilot is about to give out valuable information from his hospital bed. Luke disguises himself as the patient. The murderers make their play to get Luke, but he disarms them just as Withers breaks into the room. Dilson has a film of the scroll in his pocket.
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