The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-02-05

certain deep seated nervousness. so at
last locked my desk. told the boy ]
would not be back and took a cab for
a long drive through the park. was
! able to greet Godfrey with a smile
when he called for me at o'clock.
"I've engaged table at little
place around the corner" he said. ut
is managed by friend Of mine, and
think you'll like It."
I did. Indeed. the dinner was so
good that 1t demanded undivided at
tention.
Anything newr' asked as we
pushed back our chairs.
/ mo, nothing of any Importance. The
man at the morgue has not been iden-
tilted. In the first place. the Paris po
lice have never taken his Bertillon
measurements He has never been ar
rested. More peculiar Is the fact that
he hasn't been recognized here The
police have no report of any such man
missing"
'"That is peculiar, isn't it?" com
mented.
Its very peculiar. 1t means one of
two things-either the fellows friends
are keeping dark purposely or he didn't
have any friends, here in New York
mt least"
perhaps he had just reached New
York and went direct to Vantine's."
Ciodfrey's face lighted up.
From the steamer, of course!
ought to have guessed as much from
the cut of his hair He hasn't been
out of France more than ten days or
SO. Excuse me a moment"
He hurried away, and Eve minutes
passed before he came back.
IL phoned the office to send some
men around to the boats which came
In yesterday. If be was a passenger
some one of the stewards will recog-
nize his photograph. There were three
boats he might have come on-the Ad
riatic and Cecilie from Cherbourg and
La Touraine from Havre. There is
nothing else that know Of" he added
thoughtfully, except that Freyling
huisen thinks he has discovered the
nature of the poison. He says 1t is
some very powerful variant of prussiC
acid"
YES" ] said. II heard him say
something of the sort last night"
'Freylinghuisen says that whoever
concocted this particular poison has
evidently discovered a new way of do
ing it-or rediscovered an old way. In
other words. if you can get fraction
of drop of it In a mans blood you
kill him by paralysis quicker than II
you put bullet through his heart"
Nothing can save a man. thenp
questioned
Nothing on earth Freylinghuisen
thinks 1t Is a new discovery. l don't
/ think some one has dug up one OF
the old Medici formulas Maybe II
was placed In the secret drawer, sc
that there would never be any lack OF
ammunition for the mechanism"
Godfrey | said, "are you still bent
, on fooling with that thing?"
"More than ever. Pm going to fine
that secret drawer, and If the fangs
strike-well, I'm ready for them. Sex
, here what I had made today"
He drew from his pocket something
that looked like steel gauntlet sucf
as one sees on suits of old armor. HI
, slipped it over his right hand.
"You see it covers the back of the
hand completely" he said, halfway
down the first joint of the fingers. L
Is made of the toughest steel ant
, would turn a bullet. And do you se'
how 1t is depressed in the middle
LesterT
> "Yes," said al was wonderin,
why you had it made in that shape"
~ want to get a sample Of that poi
son. Think what 1t is. Lester-th'
poison of the Mediciv'
l sat for a moment looking at hin
half In amusement half In sorrow
He caught my glance and put tn,
gauntlet back into his pocket.
got out the cablegram and passet
1t across to him. He read 1t witt
.. brows contracted.
''That seems to put a puncture II
our little romance, doesn't it?" l asket
at last "Armand's man hasn't calle'
yet? suppose he'll be around to
morrow"
"You will have to turn the cabine
over to him, of course"
, 'Why. yes; 1t belongs to him-a
least 1t doesn't belong to Vantine."
"Well, in spite of this" he said, e
am still interested In that cabinet
Lester. and wish you would kee
. possession of It as long as you car
At least l wouldn't give 1t up until b
= delivered to you the other cabine
which vantine really bought"
"Oh, ri make him do that" l agree
|. quickly. "That will no doubt take