The Washington herald., 1915-08-01

We looked at each other in amaze
ment Andrews was frankly skeptical OF
the GOODNESS Of the young man. Kennedy
said nothing for some moments.
Il see you don't want to talk. he put
| in shortly.
Nothing to talk about" grunted
Dana, in disgust
Then why are you here"
Nothing but conjecture. No facts,
| only suspicious" said Dana half to him.
self
You expect US to believe that" insin-
uated Andrews.
II can't help what you believe. Tha:
| is the fact
And you were not with Them"
No
You'll be within call. if We let YOU
| go now. any time that we want you?''
interrupted Kennedy, much to the sur
prise of Andrews
Il shall stay in Woodbine as long as
there is any hope of clearing up this
, case. If you want me. suppose shall
| have to stay anyhow. even if there is
clue somewhere else
"Ill take your word for it, offered
Kennedy.
TN give it"
must say that I rather liked the
young chap. although I could make
notnlnS OUT or him.
AS Dana Phelps disappeared down the
road. Andrews turned to Kennedy.
; What did YOU do that for he asked.
half critically
Because we can watch him, anyway
answered Craig. with a significant glance
at the now empty casket. Have him
shadowed. Andrews. It may lead to
something and it may not But in any
case don't let him get out of reach"
What were you writing I asked
Craig. endeavoring to change the SUBJ
Ject to one more promising.
Just copying the peculiar share of
those marks on Phelps arm. Perhaps
We can improve on the finSer-print meth
cd Of Identification. Those were marks
of human teeth
He was glancing casually at his sketch
as he displayed it to us. wondered
whether ne really expected to obtain
proof of the identity of at least one of
the ghouls by the tooth marks.
1T shows eight teeth. one of them de-
cayed." he remarked. BY the way
there's no use watching here any longer
I have some more work to do in the
laboratory which will keep me another
day. Tomorrow night I shall be ready
Andrews. in the meantime l leave the
shadowing of Dana to you. and with the
help of Jameson | want you to arrange
to have all those connected with the
case at my laboratory tomorrow night
without fail
Andrews and had to do some clever
scheming to bring pressure to bear on
the various persons interested to insure
their attendance. now that Craig was
ready to act. OF course there was no diff
ficulty in getting Dana Phelps. Andrews
shad IN,
of the following day that indicated any
thing. Mrs. Phelps came down to town
by train and DR.. Forden motored in An
drevs even took the precaution to secure
ShauChnessy and the trained nurse. Miss
Tracy. who had been with Montague
Phelps during his illness but had not
contributed anything toward untangling
the case. Andrews and myself complet-
ed the little audience
We found Kennedy heating a large
mass of some composition of rubber
such as dentists use in taking impress
sidps of the teeth.
Il shall be ready in a moment" he
excused himself. still bending over mis-
Bunsen flame. by the way. Mr.. Phelps.
il you will permit me-
He had detached a wad of the softened
rubber. Phelps. taken by surprise. al
lowed him to make an impression of his
teeth almost before he realized what
Kennedy was doing. The precedent set,
so to speak, Kennedy approached Dr.
Forden. He demurred but finally con-
scented. Mrs. Phelps followed, then the
nurse. and even Shaughnessy.
With a quick glance at each impress
sion. Kennedy laid them aside to harden.
I am ready to begin" he remarked at
length. turning to a peculiar looking in
strument. something like three tele-
scopes pointing al a center in which was
a series of glass prisms.
He placed something in a test tube in
line before one of the barrels of the tele-
scopes. near a brilliant electric light
What do you see Walter" he asked
indicating an eyepiece
I looked. "A series of lines" I re-
Piled. What is it,
That" he explained, lis a spectre
scope. and those are the lines of the alb
sorption spectrum. Each of those lines
by its presence, denotes a different SUBJ
stance. Now. on the pavement of the
Phelps mausoleum I found. you will re-
call, some roundish spots. I have made
a very diluted solution of them which is
placed in this tube. Blood-human
blood-that was what those stains were"
Whose blood was it? I asked myself
Was it of some one who had visited the
tomb. who was surprised there or sur
prised some one else there? l was hard
ly ready for kennedy's quick remark:
There were two kinds of blood there
One was contained in the spots on the
floor all about the mausoleum There
are marks on the arm of Dana Phelps
which he probably might say were made
by the teeth of my police dog. Schaef
They are human tooth marks. however
He was bitten by some one in a struggle
It was his blood on the floor of the maus-
oleum. Whose were the teeth
Kennedy fingered the now set rubber
Impressions. then resumed: Before II
answer that question. what else does the
spectroscope show? I found some spots
near the coffin. which has been broken
open by a heavy object It had slipped
and had injured the body of Monta que
Phelps. From the injury some drops had
oozed. My spectroscope tells me that
that. too. is blood. The blood and other
had remained in an aqueous condition
instead of becoming pectous. That is
remarkable circumstance"
1t flashed over me what Kennedy had
been driving at in his inquiry regarding
embalming. II the poisons of the en-
balming fluid had not been injected he
had now clear proof regarding anything
his spectroscope discovered.
Il had expected to find a poison, per-
haps an alkaloid." he continued slowly.
as he outlined his discoveries by the use
of one of the most fascinating branches
of modern science. spectroscopy. There
was no poison there" He had raised his
voice to emphasize the startling revela-
ton. Instead, found an extraordinary
amount Of the substance and products of