Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-25
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! placed him in communication with
the various portions of the house
hold; while n telephone on one side
and typewriter on the other showed
that the chemist kept in touch also
with the outside world.
Il Murdock's interlocutor, whoever he
had been. had disappeared. But howl
The question interested Sturgis, and
his mind at once began to seek an
answer to it.
There were three doors leading
from the study. One of these was the
one by which Murdoch and Stureis
had just entered from the hall. No
one could have passed out that way
without meeting them.
Then there We're the folding doors
leading into the library; but, as the
door leading from the library to the
hall had remained slightly ajar, Stur-
| gis felt sure that he would have heard
the .man had he gone out by that
| way.
The third door led to q small ex-
tension.
He must have gone into the ex-
| teRslon, thought Sturgis.
The only alternative was an exit
through the windows. This in itself
would not have presented any special
difficulty; for the distance to the
tagging below was hardly more than
IL or 10 feet. But the yard, which
was of diminutive size on account of
the space allotted to the garden on
the street, was Enclosed by an UNI
usually high fence. protected by
row of sharp and closely set spikes.
| These looked SO formidable that the
thought of anyone attempting to
scale the feRce instantly suggested
visions of impahd wretches writhing
in oriental tortures. The only pos
sible exit from the yard, therefore,
seemed to be through the basement;
| that is to say, past the kitchen and
the servants department.
All these thoughts flashed through
the reporters brain in small frnc-
ton of the time which is required to
record them. They occurred to him
unbidden, while his conscious efforts
were conferred upon discovering how
Chatham had managed to escape from
the rear of the Manhattan Chemical
company's building
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embellishments which an nnbridled re-.
| portorial imagination can add to II.
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viii be m,Ge ,brouub tho nronor nbon
nelx am surnrs.d that on. ,bo
passes for man of science should be
willing to make such n request"
| If sInrdock intended to call tho ra.
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was. Sturgis prided himself above all
tbinys upon the scientific value of his
work in all its aspects. He manifested
no external sinn of annov,nce how.
ever. as he answered. with smile:
~ am not mnn of science NOW Int
only a reporter"
"In that case" replied Murdoch. "let
us talk of something else. I should he
pleased to discuss nv chemical re.
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