Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-04-27


Johnson grinned in his prisoners
face.
"That was one bad break, George" +"
he said softly. - have leen waiting
to get you, and guess | have"
Mallet opened his lips.
"Whisky, for Gods sake" he
gasped.
Dual nodded to the detective.
you'll find my man in the next
room, back" he suggested, and John
son left the room.
We awaited his return in silence
broken only by the labored respiration
of the half-fainting man.
1t came hard and irregular, rising
and falling across the room in its
nerve-racking sibilance, telling more
truly than any words of soul already
in torment.
When johnson returned with a glass
of raw spirit Mallet seized it and
drained it at a gulp and gave back
the glass. "Thank you," he said.
Dual turned back to his desk.
''If my deductions are correct, the
names in the will which were changed
are Gustav and George. Now, let me
call your attention to the fact that
George Mallet, of whose writing
have here a sample, writes similar
hand to his cousin, with some eXcep-
tions. Among them are that he
makes shorter loop to his small g.
than does Gustav. Look at the word
George as written in the will.
although there was an attempt to
duplicate the writing of the body of
the document, yet that one thing was
overlooked, and the 'g' in the word
has shorter loop than any other
looped letter in the will. And refer
ring to word beloved in the light of
our knowledge of Mr.. Anthony Con-
RAIDS attitude toward Mallet, and the
fact that he knew of the life which
Mr.. Mallet has been living, and that
he was heavily in debt, that word is
sadly out of place"
thought of Dual's remark of the
morning, that one word might serve
to point the truth.
Here before my eyes l saw it veri-
fed.
"And now," Semi was going on, "let
US proceed to prove that we are right
before we finally decide. "Here"-he
took up the scale of white substance
which Johnson and had found on the
desk at Conrad's-" is a dried scale
of some substance, which was found
adhering to the top of the desk in the
uncle's study. We will find out what
it is"
He laid it upon piece of paper,
picked up dropper, and dripped one
tiny drop of water upon it.
Next he took small dish and into
it poured some quantity of brown
ish fluid. "Iodin," he explained.
Lifting the dish, he warmed it gen
tly over the spirit-lamp, lifted the
sheet of paper with the dampened
scale upon it, and held it over the
fumes.
While we sat and watched change
came over the little, dull, white cir
Gle. 1t grew less white, took on a
new color, turned blue.
Starch" said Semi Dual.
The paper about the blue spot had
turned brown. Dual noticed my
glance and smiled.
"The natural reaction of cellulose
to iodin," he explained. at will oc-
cur under similar conditions with any
dampened wood-fber paper"
He picked up the will.
"Now, gentlement, we will see if
this paper upon which Anthony Con-
rad wrote his last will and testament
has been dampened recently. If it
has it will turn brown, as this other
sheet has done-see?"
He held the back of the will above
the steaming iodin in the shallow dish.
We waited in tense anxiety of eX-
pectance what would happen.
And as we watched we saw that the
same change was coming over the will
which had come over the sheet of
paper.
About the first name of Gustav, and
the other name of George, the paper
was gradually taking on delicate
tan shade, which was deepening with
each moment to brown.
But under the names themselves a
different thing was transpiring.
Even as in the case of the dampen-
ed flake, the surface of the paper upon
which those names stood forth was
darkenening and deepening to vio-
let hue.
A thin smile fiicked Dual's lips.
"Iodin," he said again, "and iodin,