Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-03-31

problem in the connecting up of Lone
ends. At the New York terminus
had two deaths in the office of = NJ
with powerful and subtle anemioa
Some deadly thing is Introduces
through that keyhole. The killing ;.
huence reaches a corner far out of ~.
direct line of the keyhole. Being No.
the radiator, that corner represent.
the attraction of warmth. Therefor"
the invading force was some septian,
| creature.
Now, at the Bridgeport end We bav,
a deadly influence loosed. Here To-
the peril is somewhat dependent mn
on warmth, we know, from Professn,
Moseley's agonized eagerness for
frost. Dogs are killed. Finally
| child falls victim, and on that child !,
found circular mark, similar to tbo
mark on Mr.. DORIS dogs lip. Ym
see the striking points of analogy?"
DO you mean us to believe poor
old Moseley a cold -blooded murderer
demanded Mr.. Curtis Fleming.
Far from it. At worst an unhapnv
victim of his own carelessness in
| loosing peril upon his neighborhood
You're forgetting a connecting link.
the secretive red-dot communications
from New York city addressed nv
| Moseley to himself on behalf of soma
| customer who ordered simply by code
| of inkdots. He was the man had to
find. The giant luna moths helped to
do it."
Il don't see where they come in ar
ALL declared Dorr bluntly. "A moth
a foot wide couldn't crawl through
| keyhole. y
mo; nor do any damage if it did
The luna is harmless The moths
We're important only as clues-and
bait. Their enormous size showed
Professor Moseley's line of work; the
selectiye breeding of certain forms Of
| life to two or three times the normal
proportions. Very we'll; | had to as
certain some creature which, if magnl
fed several times, would be deadly
and which would still be capable Of
entering large keyhole. Having de.
termined that"
you found what it was?" cried
Dorr.
"One moment. Having determined
that, | had still to get in touch with
Professor Moseley's mysterious New
York correspondent. | figured that
he must be interested in Professor
Moseley's particular branch of re
search or he never could have devised
his murderous scheme. So | con
structed the luna moth advertisement
to draw him, and when l got a reply
from Mr.. Ross, who is a fellow-ten
ant of Mr.. DORIS, the chain was com
plete. Now, you see where the luna
moths were useful. II | had adver-
tised, instead of them, the lathrodec-
tus, he might have suspected and re
Trained from answering"
What's the lathrodectus demand
ed both the hearers at once.
For answer Average Jones took a
letter from his pocket and read:
Bureau of Entomology.
U. s. Department of Agriculture,
w aSnlnStOn, u. T., April Z.
Mr.. A. V. r. Jones,
Astor Court Temple, New York sCity.
Dear Sir-Replying to your letter of in
quiry, the only insect answering your
specifications is small spider Lathrodec-
tus mactans, sometimes popularity called
the Red Dot from a bright red mark upon
the back. Rare cases are known where
death has been caused by the bite of this
insect.
THE t,,,rAa,, I-nor,- ,,otb;~- - 49,, q.
periments in breeding the Lathrodectus
for size. Your surmise that specimens Of
two or three times the normal size would
be dangerous to life is undoubtedly cor
rect, and selected breeding to that end
should be conducted only under adequate
scientific safeguards. A LathrodectI
mactans with fangs large enough to pene
trate the skin of the hand and double
or triple supply of venom, would be, per
haps, more deadly than cobra.
The species is very susceptible to cold,
and would hardly survive a severe frost.
1t frequents woodples and outhouses.
Yours truly,
l.. o. HOWARD,
Chief of Bureau
Then Ross was sneaking down
here at night and putting the spiders
which he had got from Professor Nose
IVY IhAOoeoA my MY hOlC3 III tuC h@F~
that sooner or later one of them would
get me- said Dorr.
"A very reasonable expectation, too.
Vide, the dogs" returned Average
Jones.
And now" said Mr. Curtis Fleming
will someone kindly explain to me
what this Ross fiend had against our
friend, Mr.. Dorr?"
Nothing" replied Average Jones.
You see Mr.. Dorr was interfering
with the machinery of one of our rul
ing institutions, the Canned Meat
Trust"
Nonsense. Socialistic nonsense!
snapped Mr.. Curtis Fleming. Trusts
may be unprincipled, but they don't
commit individual crimes"