The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-30

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 went over the whole affair with Alr Royce as soon as he reached the lcmce and spent the rest of the day erranelng the papers relating to Van tines affairs aud, getting them ready to probate Parks called me up once or twice for instructions as to various details. And then, toward the middle Of the afternoon, came the cablegram from Paris which had almost for gotten to expect:
 Royce & Lester, New York:
 Regret mistake in shipment exceedingly. Dnr representative will call to explain
 ARMAND & SON.
 So there was an end of the romance Godfrey had woven and which I had been almost ready to believe the TO- 1nance of design. of a carefully laid plot and all that It had been merely accident after all
 put the whole thing impakiently away from me and turned to other work but found could not conquer a certain deep seated nervousness, so at 1aHt I 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 cszled for me at o'clock.
 five engaged table at a little pfmce around the corner,s he said. 'sTt is managed by friend Of mine, and I think you'n like it-'' ts
 I did Indeed, the dinner was so good that 1t demanded undivided at tention-
 Anything newa'' asked as we pushed back our chairs
 sNo, nothing of any fmportAnee. The man at the morgue has not been iden- fifed. In the f1rst place, the Paris pc 1ce have never taken his BertfIion measurements. He has never been ar rested More peculiar is the fact that be hasn't been recognized here. The police have nosreport of any such man missing"
 -arhat is peculiar. isn't ita" I com mented-
 Its very peculiar It means one of two things-either the fellows friends are keeping dark purposely or he didn't have any friends, here in New York at least"
 .-Perhaps be had just reached New York and went direct to vantine's'
 Go1frey'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 five minutes passed before he came back
 phoned the office to send some men around to the boats which came in yesterday. If he was a passenger some one of the stewards will recog- nize his photograph. There were three boats he might have come on-the Ad- Blatfc and Ceci1ie from CHerheurg and La T0urafne from Havre- There is nothing else that I know of, 2 he added thoughtfully, except that Freyiing- huisen thinks he has discovered the nature of the poison He says it is some very powerful variant of prussic acid"
 Yes" said "I heard him say something Of the sort last night
 Freylinghuisen says that whoever concocted this particular poison has evidently discovered a new waytof do ing it-or rediscovered an old way. Tn other words. if you can get a fraction of q drop of it in a mans blood you kill him by paralysis quicker than if you put bullet through his heart''
 Nothing can save a man, then2'' I questioned
 Nothing on earth. Freylinghuisen thinks it is a new discovery. I don't. I think some one has dug up one of the old Medici formulas. Maybe it was placed in the secret drawer, so that there would never be any lack of arnmunttien for the mechanism.'
 Godfrey" I said, '.are you still bent on foofing with that thing7'
 'More than ever. Pm going to find that secret drawer. and if the fangs strike-wel1, I'm ready for them See here what had made today
 He drew from his pocket something that looked like steel gauntlet such as one sees on suits of old armor. He slipped it over his right hand.
 ssYou see it covers the back of the hand completely" he said. halfway down the first joint Of the fingers. It Is made of the toughest steel and would turn a bullet And do you see how 1t is depressed in the middle, LesxerF
 .Yes." I said T was wondering why you had if ma-=e E. ehat shape.
 sI want to get sample of that poi SOIL Think what it is, Isester-the poison of the Medicir'
 sat for moment looking at him half in amusement. half in sorrow: He caught my glance and put the gauntlet back into his pocket.
 ! got out the cablegram and passed 4 ncEnsz to him. He read it with