Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-04-20
SYNOPSIS

nephew.
Not satisfied with the apparent so.
luton of the case, Semi Dual, the old
man of mystery, takes hand in the
Ie of human life.
Dual asks Gordon to go with John.
son of the detective force and search
the Conrad premises thoroughly for
other evidence.
They find footprint beneath q
window and finger print on the sill
and also secure the will itself. for in.
spection and comparison with the two
nephews' handwritings, which Miss
Burton aids in getting.
Gordon, the detectives and Mallet
are summoned before Semi Dual to
learn his deductions from the evil
dence secured.
"You are right, Gordon" he ad-
mitted. "The crime was planned to
make it appear that Gustav had kill
ed his uncle and then made way with
himself. But, as nearly always hap
pens, the criminal made some mis-
takes. Furthermore, he overlooked
or did not know of the strides which
scientific criminolgy has recently
made, or that chemistry has come to
play great part in the work of Grim
inologists of late. In this case it will
serve to tell the entire story of a
crime"
"And the footprints, the finger
marks 2" l added.
"Corroborative testimony" said
Semi Dual.
"You may be interested" he went
on, "to s:now that there is finger
print on the back of this note which
you brought frmo Mallet. He prob
ably made it when he folded the page
TO enclose it. 1t is hard for the aver
age man nowadays to escape leaving
those traces of his handling"
l was surprised, but then l had no
opportunity to examine the note.
shook my head and smiled.
"Still," / remarked, 81 can't see
how chemistry is going to solve this
crime"
"You WILL" said Semi, "when the
others get here"
"And will Conrad really recover ?"
] asked. "Sommers seemed to think
he had a very slight chance"
8 "He will recover" Dual asserted
confidently. Furthermore, he will
recover with his mental qualities un-
impaired Fortunately, he was shot
on the right side of his brain"
why fortunately? / asked in sur
prise.
. Because" said my friend, that
is what may be called the latent area
of the brain of the average individual.
Nature in her wonderful foresight
has given most of US vast reserve
supply of tissue. We have two lungs,
yet we can live with one; two eyes,
yet we can see with one; two ears
and most of us but one to any great
extent.
SO with the brain. The average
person uses but about one-half of his
mental tissue, in the usual case the
left half. Judging by his writing,
4 Gustav was right-handed; and, there
fore, the left half of his brain is the
or ha1 ha E,,1l Loo
wounded the right half, if it did not
cause serious hemorrhage his recov-
cry should be perfect"
"And what makes you so sure he
will live? Did you question the fu-
ture as regards his fate?"
C Precisely, Gordon. After l had
settled the major questions of the
crime, and after you left here al noon,
j set up figure of Conrad's condi-
tion. He will recover if we are to
believe the stars Venus is so aspect
ed in his figure that the very attitude
of his sweetheart will exercise hold
ing, strengthening effect on his fate.
BY sending Miss Burton the message
of hope added to her ability 10 use
that influence for his good"
! shook my head.
ITS wonderful" ] said. "You
literally play on the scale of fate, as
a virtuso plays on the keys of his
instrument. III warrant there isn't
much latent tissue lying around inside
your skull"
Dual smiled slightly.
"That is a truth and secret of ev-
olution," be replied. II am, inclined
to believe that ] still have sufficient
unused cells to serve my purpose. I'd