The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-02-18

| style Of the fourteenth and fffeeutl
Louis - net at al TO my taste an
| afraid TINT Vznttne found ma ftth
cesd-
You DON'T seem 70 care for it, h
said. hooking 1t NE.
THAT'S my zu8t and not the 6xnl
OF the cabinet" 1 potmted GU "Pr
net educated ap to It I'm too ntf1s O
am artist perhaps"
lie was flushed, az a naan might b.
should another make diSparagtng re
mark about his wine, and he he'd tn
way fr0m the room at once.
'Remenher, Lester" be said fftxs.
sternly, passing with his hand on ths
front door. there Ia TO be no foolish
ness about securing that cabinet fa1
me Don't you Let It get away. I'm
in deadly earnest Let me know al
soon as you have amy news"
Was Vantiae quite RcrEual2 wonder
ed on my way home Gould any man
be normal who was willing to pay
100000 for q piece Of furniture, espe-
cieIly man who could not afford such
Extravaganza / knew the size OF Van
tines fortune. 1t wss large. but S100,-
coo represented more than a years
income. And then i smiled TO myself.
OF course VaDtine WAS merely TESTING
when he named that limit The cabi-
net could ne bought fer tenth OF it,
at the most
1t was about s O'Clock that evening
that Godfrey tapped at my door. and
when / let kim in / could tell by the
way his eyes were shining that he had
some news.
ri can't stay long" he said 'Tve
got to get down to the office and put
the finishing touches on that story"
But nevertheless he took the cigar I
profered him and sank into the chair
opposite my own
81 want to say this, lester ne said,
that of all the cases I ever had not
one has promised better than this one
does. The ceroners physician finished
his postmortem half an hoRr or 30
ago"
''wenY' I said.
'"rhe stomach was absolutely nor.
NAL. It showed no trace Of poison of
any kind. Rather a facer for our
friend GOAdberger."
whats the matter with GoIdberger2
he seemed rather peeved with you this
afternoon"
mo wonder. He's Grady mar, and
we're after Grady. Grady isn't At TO
head the detective bure&u. He got the
Job through his pull. he's stupid and
suspect he's crooked The Record
L.
everything viii be serene again"
Look here. Godfrey / said, If It
wasn't poison what was ItT'
But it Was poison"
inserted at the handY'
He nodded
"Goldberger says there's no poison
known which cotxsd be used that way
and which would act SO quickly"
''Goldberger is right in that" agreed
Godfrey. But there's a poison IN
known that Will. because it did"
''It wasn't a snake bite2''
''Oh, no. Snake poison wouldn't KIN
ance. That fellow practically dropped
where he was struck
Then what was it2"
GOOLISy WIS S1EL2nE erect again. ne
was not smiling row. His face was
very stern.
''That fellow was killed by some |
agency outside himself" he said. "In |
'ome way drop or two Of poison was
into his blood by an instru- |
nent something like a hypodernnic |
needle, and that poison was so power |
'ul that almost instantly Ut caused |
paralysis OF the heart
But you've already said there's no /
POISON SO powerful ms all that"
az said we didn't know Of any.
wouldn't be so sure that Catherine de |
hedfci didn't This case isn't as ex- |
as some OF the old poison
ne stories"
NO" I agreed. and fell silent. shiv-
ring little. for there is something |
horrible and revolving about the poi |
oner.
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