The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1915-07-30

Poisoned ROOM
| spite of the fact that it was broad
daylight, it was running. His face
| puckered
They are using no current at pres
ent in the house." he ruminated yet
the meter is running"
He continued to examine the meter
Then he began to follow the electric
wires along, At last he discovered a
place where they had been tempered
with and tapped by other wires.
THE work of the Clutci.ing Hand"
he muttered.
| Eagerly he followed the wires to
the furnace and around to the back.
! There they led right into little
water tank Kennedy yanked them
| out. AS he did so he pulled some
thing with them
Two electrodes the villain placed
there he exclaimed, holding them up
triumphantly for me to see.
Yves l replied, obviously, "but
what does it all mean?"
why, don't you see? Under the in.
| huence of the electric current the wa
ter was decomposed and gave off oxy
| gen and hydrogen The free hydrogen
passed up the furnace pipe and com.
bining with the arsenic in the wall
paper formed the deadly arseniurettod
hydrogen"
He cast the whole improvised cleo
trolysis apparatus on the floor and
dashed up the cellar steps.
I've found itl'' he criet, hurryins
into Elaine's room. Its in this room
"a deadly gas-arseniurette( hydro.
gen."
He tore open the windows.
Have her moved" he shouted TO
Aunt Josephine. Then have vac
uum cleaner go over every inch of
WALL carpet and upholstery"
Standing beside her, he GREATNESS
ly explained his discovery THAT wall
paper has been loaded down with
arsenic. probably paris green or
Schweinfurth green, which is acetoar-
semitic of copper Every minute you
are here you are breathing arseniuret-
ted hydrogen. This Clutching Hand
Is diabolical genius. Think of it
poisoned wall paper!"
NO one said a word. Kennedy
reached down and took the two
Clutching Hand messages Elaine had
received Il shall want to study
these notes, more, too" he said, hold
ing them up to the wall at the head
OF the bed as he flashed his pocket
lens at them. You see. Elaine. may
De able to get something from study
ing the ink, the paper, the hand writ
ing"
Suddenly both leaped back. with a
cry.
Their faces had been several inches
apart. Something had whizzed between
them and literally impaled the two
notes on the wall
Down the street, on the roof of
carriage house, back of a neighbor's,
might have been seen the uncouth fig.
ure OF the shabby South American In
uian crouching behind a chimney and
gazing intently at the Dodge house.
AS Craig had thrown open Elaine'a
WINDOW and turned to Elaine the figur.
nau crouched closer to the chimney.
Then with an uncanny determine
tion, he slowly raised the blowgun to
his lips
jumped forward, followed by Doc
tor Hayward, Aunt Josephine and
MARIE Kennedy had a peculiar look
as he pulled out from the wall blow
gun dart similar in every way to that
"nich had killed Michael
Craig" gasped Elaine. reaching up
ana laying her soft, white hand on his
arm In undisguised fear for him. you
you must give up this chase for the
Clutching Hand"
Give up the chase for the Clutch.
ing Hand?' he repeated in surp~tse.
Never Not until either he or | IN
deadi"
Inere was both fear and admiration
mingled in her look. as he reached
down and patted her dainty shoulder
enaourasingly.
fTo BE CoNrINuEDJ