Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-17
BURTON E. STEVENS
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been moved That was the BUule cab met It had been carried 10 the center of the room and placed in the full glare of the light from the chandelier It stood there blazing with arrogant beauty. a thing apart
 Who had helped vantine place 1t there? I wondered. Neither Rogers nor Parks had mentioned doing so. I turned back to The outer room. could feel Rogers jerk with nervous ness as I touched him on the shoulder.
 'I just wanted to ask you--did you help move any of the furniture in the room yonder?" said
 "No. sir: haven't touched any of it. sir"
 That's all right. then" said, and turned back into the inner room.
 vantine had said that he intended examining the cabinet in detail at the first opportunity. He and the woman had entered the anteroom together He had closed the door. and then
 Like lightning flash, thought leap cd Into my brain-a reason-an ex- planatIon-wlld. improbable. absurd. but still an explanation. Fascinated as by deadly serpent, l stood staring at the cabinet There. l felt certain, lay the clew to the mystery. Grady, Simmonds and Goldberger ex- amined the room minutely. l heard Grady comment upon the fact that there was no door except the one open | ing into the anteroom. and saw them | examine the window catches
 Nobody could raise these windows | without alarming the house." Grady said. and pointed to a tiny wire run ming along the woodwork. There's a burglar alarm"
 Simmonds assented. and finally the trio returned to the anteroOm.
 Wed like to look over the rest of the house." Grady snid 10 Rogers. who was sitting erect again. looking more ike himself. and the four men went out into the hall together. l remain ed behind with Hughes and Freyiing- huisen They had lifted the body to the couch and were making a careful examination of it Heavy at heart. sat down near by and watched them.
 That Philip Vantine should have been killed by enthusiasm for the hob by which had given him so much pleasure seemed the very irony Of fate yet such believe to be the case Frey linghuisen's voice brought me out oi my reverie.
 '"The two cases are precisely alike he was saying. ''The symptoms arr identical And I'm certain we shal find paralysis of the heart and spinn cord fin this case. just as l did in thu other. Both men were killed by thu same poison-some variant of hydro cyanic acid. l fancy. The odor indi cates that. but it must be about aft. times as deadly as hydrocyanic acid is
 They wandered away into discus sion of possible variants so technicn and besprinkled with abstruse word and formulas that l could not follow them. The two detectives and tn coroner came back while the discus sion was still fin progress and nstene fin silence to Freylinghuisen's stntt
 ment of the case. Grady's mahogan
 face told absolutely nothing of wha
 was passing fin his brain. but Sin
 monds was plainly bewildered. So.
 suspected. was Grady. but he was to
 self composed to betray it. T The coroner drew the two physician
 aside and talked to them for a fe' h moments in low tone. Then he turi Q ed to Grndy.
 n "Freylinghuisen thinks there is Q necessity for a postmortem." he sail ' ''rhe symptoms are in every way idel n teal with those of the other man WI }. was killed here this afternoon. The' T can be no question thnt both Of thel q died from the same cause. He d rendy to make his return to that ,1i feet" lt ,s 'very we'll" assented Grady fy9 Q body cnn be turned over to the rel 7. tives, then"