The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-11

coagulating blood The door wa.
not locked, as we found afterward
but the young man did not stop tc
enter. Hesran to ME and fortunatel,
l met him at our door, | went back
We opened the unlocked door
The first thing. as | recall it, tha
greeted me was an unmistakable odo,
of oranges. However, | soon fount
out what 1t was, or at least Strong
did. | don't know whether you know
anything about it, but it seems thai
when you melt real rubber in the
effort to reduce it to carbon and
hydrogen you get a liquid substance
which is known as isoprcne. Well
isoprene, according to Strong, give.
out an odor something like ether
Gushing or some one else had ap.
parently been heating isoprcne.
However, that's not the point
There lay Gushing on his back or
the workbench. just as Strong hat
said. | bent over him and in his
arm, which was bare, | saw a little
cash made by some sharp instru
ment and laying bare an artery,
think, which was cut. | believe that
he blcd to death"
And the motive for such a terri.
BILE crime? quericd Craig.
Mr.. Winslow shook his head help,
lessly. 81 suppose there are plenty
OF motives" he answered slowly, "as
many motives as there are big in.
vcstments in rubber producing ven
lures in Goodyear. The president Of
the company is the Mr. Borlanc
whom | mentioned" replied Mr.
Winslow. HE is man Of abou
30, should say, and is reputed te
own a majority OF the"
"Oh. father" interrupted Mis-!
Winslow, who had caught the drift
OF the conversation in spite of tn,
pains that had been taken to kee,
it away from her, "Mr. Borland would
never dream of such a thing. 1t i
wrong even to think of it"
Il didn't say that he would. IN,
dear" corrected Mr. Winslow gent
ly. He leaned over and Whispered
to Kennedy, "Borland is a visitor a
cur home, and between you and me
he thinks great deal of Ruth
looked quickly at Kennedy, Blu
he was absorbed in looking out o
the car window at the landscap,
which he did not and could not see.
you said there were others whc
had an interest in outside com
panies," cross-questioned Kennedy
who were the men who went OF
that expedition to the Congo witt
Bor'and which you mentioneds"
"Of course, there was Borland him
self, answered Winslow. THE,
there was young chemist namec
Lathrop, very clever and ambition
fellow who succeeded Gushing wher
he resigned from the works, and DR.
Harris, who was persuaded to e
because of his friendship for Dor
land. After they took up the con
cession | believe all of them pu
money into it, though how much
can't say"
Nothing more was said until w,
arrived a: Goodyear.
We found the body of Cushin,
lying in a modest little mortuar,
chapel of an undertaking establish
mcnt on the main street. Kennel
at once began his investigation b,
discovering what seemed to hav
escaped others, About the throa
were light discolorations that shove,
that the young inventor had bee
ohokcd by a imam with a powerful
grasp.
Kennedy passed over the doubtful
evidence OF strangulation for tn
more profitable examination OF thu
little cash in the wrist.
The radial artery has beer cut,
he unused.
A low exclamation from hin
brought us all bending over him a.
he stopped and examined the colo
form. He was holding in the palm
OF his hand a little piece of some
thing that shone like silver. 1t wa.
in the form OF minute hollow cylin
der with two grooves or it, a cylin
der so tiny that it would scarcel,
have sllppe over the PEN: of Z
pencil.
Where did you find it," | asked
eagerly.
He pointed to the wound Stick
ing in the severed end OF a piece o.
vein." he replied. half to himself
"cuffed over the end of the radia
artery which had been severed, ant
done so neatly as to be PRACTICAL,
hidden"
"As | looked at the little silver
thing and at kennedy's face which
betrayed nothing felt that here
indeed was a mystery.
Next | should like to visit the
laboratory" he remarked simply.
Fortunately the laboratory had