The evening world., 1911-03-18

haggard face.
lis his true7' the president de.
manded sternly. Branower buried his
face IN his hands.
Il will tell you ALL" ne said, thickly.
Harrison, as this fellow found 70
somehow. Is my wife's brother. He
has always been reckless. wild; but she
Cora, do not stop me now-loved him
and chung to hin as--as a sister some
times clinvs TO such n brother. They
were alone In the world. Joslyn. She
married ne only on condition that 1
save and protect him. He demanded
a position hero. I hesitated. His life
had been one long scandal; but never
before had he been dishonest with
money. Finally I made IL a condition
10 keep his relationship secret and sent
FOR him. I myself nrst discovered he
had raised the notes. weeks before you
came TO inc with the evidence you had
discovered that something was wrong
In tho ~treasurer's office. As soon as I
found 10 out I went TO Lawrie. He
agreed 10 keep Harrison about the
Office until I could remove him quietly.
lie paid tho notes from the university
reserve. Just raised. upon my promise
10 make II up. David had lost ell spec
ulating In stocks. could not pay this
TREMENDOUS amount In cash 1t once:
but the books were to be audited. Law
RE. who had expected Immediate re-
payment from me. would not sven once
present n false statement. In our ar
gument his heart gave out did not
know II was weak-and he collapsed In
his c~hnlr-dend."
''oh. Professor Reiland" Mrs. Bran
over cGed now. 'He has not told every
thing. IL had followed hint"
You followed him. Tran. cried.
II Thoughtful told him." the wife burs.
on. this had happened by Providence to
saw Davidr'
Then Il was you who suggested 70
him TO leave the stlctto letter opener
In Lawr4e's hand as an evidence OF
suiclde!'
Branower and his wife both stared a,
Trant IN fresh terror.
Blu you. Mr.. Hanover Trant wen:
on. mot being a woman with a precious
brother to save. could not think Of max
ing n wound. You thought OF the gas.
or COURSE But II was inexcusable In me-
not 10 test for Mrs. Branower's pres
ence. II was her odd mental association
OF a perpetrator with the news Of the
suspected suicide that first aroused my
suspicious"
He turned az though che matter were
finished; but met DR.. Joslyn's p~erplexed
eyes. The end ATTAINED was plain: but
10 tho president OF the university the
road which they had come was dark
az ever. Branower had taken his wife
into another room. He returned.
'Dr. Joslyn.' said Trant. ~ n
scientifically imposstbie-as any psy-
chologIst will tell you-for a person who
associates tho first suggested idea IN
two and one-haif seconds. Nike MAJ
garet. 20 substitute another without
almost doubling tho time interval.
conserve Margaret's replies. Iron
followed steal as quickly as cat fol-
lowed dog silver the thing q wom-
an first thinks OF IN connection with
burglary. was the first association she
had with thief No possible guilty
thought there. No guilty secret con-
nccted with her father prevented her
from associating. In her regular time.
some girls secret with Alice seaton
next door. I saw her Innocence at once
and continued Questioning her merely
TO AVOID "A moro formal examination of
tho others. I rasped my chair over the
floor to disturb her nerves. therefore,
and got you into tho test.
THE first two tests OF You, Or.
Joslyn. showed that you had no asso-
citation with the notes. The date half
OF them came due meant nothing 90
you. October suggested only recita-
lions n fourteenth permitted you 10
associate simply the succeeding day IN
an entirely unsusp!cdous time,
~ substituted Mr.. BranowH. I had
explained this system as getting results
from persons with poor mental resist
ance. / had not mentioned Il as even
surer Of results when the person tested
~ IN full! control Of his faculties, even
suspicious and trying To prevent he
traying himself. Mr.. Branover clearly
thought he could guard htmsef from
giving mo anything. Now notice his
replies.
The tw~enty-hfth, the day most OF
the notes were due, meant % much that
II took double tho time before he could
drive out his first suspicious assocla-
ton merely to say twenty-sixth.'
told you I suspected his wife was at
least cognizant OF something WRONG. II
took him twice the necessary time TO
say Cora after wife was mentioned.
lie gave the first association, but the
chronoscops registered merc!lessly that
he had to think Il over. Wound then
brought tho remarkable association no
at the END OF four n six-tenths Sec
onds. There was no wound, but some
thing had made II SO that he a to
think It over to see II Il was suspicious.
Il Solemn P'isdgo
10 Remain Silent,
"When I irst saw that dagger letter
opener on DR., Lavrie's desk I thought
that II a man were trying to make II
seem suicide he must At least have
thought OF using tho dagger before the
gas, Now note the next test. 'Harri-
SON. Any Innocent man. not OVERRIDING
Il, would have answered at once the
name OF the Harrison Immediately In
all our minds. Mr., Branower thought
OF him FIRST OF course, and could have
answered In two seconds. To drive out
that and think OF President Harrison
so as 10 give a seemingly innocent as
ISOLATION. Cleveland took him over
Ave seconds. | then went for the hold
Of this Harrison. probably. upon Mira
hanover. I tried for 1t twice.
The second trial. brother made him