Adam closed his eyes as he listened to the two women discuss the cases.  It was easier to shut out the distractions and focus on the pattern as it emerged.  He too had been leaning towards the situation with the child as being the more pressing.  Partly because it Felt to him like it was the more intricate and complex pattern and partly because helping the grown police force came second to helping a young girl abandoned by her parents and left in a mental hospital.  Oh they gave it a fancy name, but they basically had written the child off as crazy.  

Adam disliked mental hospitals, and psychiatrists, as a general rule.  In no small part because he knew he was only a step away from madness himself.  He had never learned how the doctor had come to know his parents, and probably would never have contacted the man for any reason, but he would not disrespect his parents by refusing their friend his services, no matter how the doctor's “treatment” of the little girl rankled him.  

His conscious thoughts had strayed to his parents as Lucie was talking but his unconscious mind still heard everything she said.  It was a testament to his mental acuity that he could follow multiple different threads of thought at once and not find himself lost and it was a simple matter to catch up as she finished her questions.  

“Very well” he said quietly.  “I will send word to the hospital director that I will be happy to come to his assistance at his earliest convenience.  Perhaps in that time more details on the other situation will have come to light, it is always a challenge to attempt to solve a problem when people don't wish to admit they have one.”

“As to the issue of the girl” he paused and did some quick math.  “There's a 93% probability that her parents have simply washed their hands of their offspring and would be all too happy to have her disappear.  I believe it would be possible to safely engineer some sort of disappearance which would satisfy all involved.”

“All of this is of course based on successfully finding out whatever is affecting the child, whether it's external or internal, and coming up with a solution that will end up helping her.” 

“Please pardon me for a moment” he said and stood up.  He grabbed a slim cardboard card from his desk, scribbled something on the back, and went to the outer room door and summoned a footman.  Speaking quietly to the man he sent him on his way and returned to his chair and settled in again. 

“I have just informed the good Doctor Helson that I shall be delighted to attend him in the morning so that I may offer my assistance.  I am sure I don't need to tell you that were certain...truths...about myself to come to light I would very likely end up in the asylum myself.  Or more likely they would just try to kill me, women who prefer to be men are unwelcome abominations to say nothing of my own sexual inclinations which are equally reviled.  Should we come into an accidental confrontation with the staff we shall simply have to extricate ourselves in the most efficient manner possible.  Hopefully without the need of lethal force but I will do what I must.”  

He said the last with a dark finality that was out of character for his usually calm self.  

“As such I don't think all three of us should descend on the good Doctor at once.  It would be completely reasonable however if I were to show up with an assistant.  Someone who is apt at blending into the background and taking notes.  Perhaps you would be willing to take up that role again Miss Lily while Miss Lucie, perhaps you can find a more...subtle...way to make your way into the hospital.  While Miss Lily and I distract the good doctor by plying him with questions you can take a more direct approach to the child?  I've no description of her so it's going to take a bit of sleuthing to find her as it is.  But I would very much like to find her, and talk to her, out of the influence of the Doctor or his staff.  Somehow I think it would be far more enlightening, and truthful.  'Tis a pity we can't visit tonight before our scheduled visit tomorrow.  I suspect that would be even more enlightening.”

He leaned back after his flood of words and closed his eyes waiting for the two ladies to offer their insights as to better plans or ideas he might have missed.

"Do you ladies have any thoughts or plans to add? If not I suggest we reconvene on the morrow at dawn for a light meal before heading out."