The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-27
THE SNAKES EYE
BY L. T. MEADE and DIR. CLIFFORD HALIFAX.
Copyright 1910. by w @. ChapmanD

piuath stood with folded arms a/few feet
away from me- glanced at him. and
was at once struck with the great change
he was strikingly handsome specimen
OF his race-thn and wiry. upright as
dart, with finely formed, supple limbs.
NOW his face was emaciatcd. his eyes
mad the expression of suffering that one
sometimes notices in those Of suffering
dos his figure was bowed, and at inter-
walls long, shudderng signs escaped his
lips.
You are III. Gopinath.',, said.
his hand a%aef 10 his s' right SDldS side III
suffer it,I agony" he said again.
1t In mine. Tho pulse was throbbing
wildly. the mans skin also burned. he
was evidently very H. and | fancIed he
might have fallen victim to some form
When breathe. I suffer torture. he
said; gaspng sharply as he spoke. I
motioncd him 10 take q chair. but in
stead Of doing he seated himself OIL
the foor with his legs doubled up un-
der him.
ing his hands over his right side. while
head.
a sudden thought flashed through my
mind. Gopinath's unaccountabc grief.
the complete change in his appearance.
made wild hope leap within me. No
suspicion in connection with The murder
had as yet fallen on the East Indian,
Suppose. after all. he knew more about
it than anyone else? 1 firmly believed
that the person who stole tho diamond
was the one who committed the murder.
Suppose that the temptation 10 appro-
pirate so valuable a gem had proved too
much for Gopinath?
stand up I said to him suddenly.
You suffer pain hcre?" | touched his
Side lightly.
- - -l,a
saw that no could. scarcely pull himself
together. his sufferings were go intense.
II am going to flnd out what is The
matter ! said. STAY where You ar are
j hurried 10 my laboratory. (or | felt
that the moment had arrived when
could make d good test of the Rontgeu
rays Was IL possible that they might
perhaps saving an Innocent life? The
Crookes vacuum tube was got Into tho
right position. saw that tho rays
worked well, and then ! returned tc
Goplnath and brought him into tho lab
oratory. I desired him To strip. and then
arranged him in such a position that the
rays would pass through my body.
turned off the lights in the room. Ny
electrical battery worked we'll the rays
playing admirably In the vacuum tube
removed the cap from the camera. and
minutes felt certain that ! had taken a
careful photograph.
THAT win do I said to the black
man. ! led him back To the library.
'I have taken photograph Of You.
said TO him, which may show me the
seat Of your malady. When / have de-
veIoped H. Will come back to you"
returned to my dark room, and quick
ly developed the plate. When had I'm
ished and saw what the mysterious Y
rays had produced, uttered a. shout OF
triumph The. skeleton Of the WHY Brah-
min was distinctly visible and just be-
low the region OF the ileo-caecal valve, q
foreign substance about the size Of the
Snakes Eye was seen ] had not the
least doubt that ! was looking at the
gold socket of the cobra's eye, the dia
mond itself being probably not impervious
to the S-rays. Men OF Gopnath's ma
tionality had swallowed precious stones
before now. This was not the first Tins
in the annals of history that the human
body had been made hiding place fol
stolen property.
| telcphoned at once TO Crossthwsits
and a clever colleague of mine, one Dr.
| Symes. 10 come TO the house Immediately
They made their appearance in little
while. and I exhibited TO their astonishet