Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09

the modern sanitary desks In tnls
case the legs of the desk raised tht
that one could at least see where tins
cleaning woman had left small pale
of fnsanitary dust near the wall
Suddenly Kennedy bent down and poked
something out of the pile OF dust There
on the floor was al empty shell OF Q
cartridge Kennedy picked 1t up and
looked at it curiously.
Looking for piece OF paper IN which
to wrap the shell. he pulled out the mid
die drawer of the desk. In back
corner was a package Of letters. neatly
tied We glanced at them. The envelopes
bore the name OF Jose Rarrtos ana were
in the handwriting OF a woman. Some
were postmarked Cuba; others, later.
New York Kennedy opened one Of them;
] could not restrain an exclamation OF
establishment. l had expected 1nat tney
were signed by name that we had
never heard-Teresa de Leon!
Hastily Kennedy read through the open
letter; Its tone seemed to be that OF =. 4
would follow you anywhere-fH make
you want me-.
One after another Kennedy ran through
theueb the writer wish wished by som. cir
cumlocufion to convey an idea that would
not be apparent to some third. inquisi-
tive party
been making l4s-e to another woman at
the same time that he was engaged to
Eulalie Sandovai? As far as the contents
of the letters went there was nothing to
show that he had done anything wrong.
The mystery of the ''other woman" only
served to deepen the mystery OF what lit
tie he already knew.
Craig dropped the letters into his peck
ct along with the shell and walked around
into the ONCE OF SandovaL l followed
him. Quickly he made a search, but 1t
did not seem to net him anything.
Meanwhile ] had been regarding a
queer looking instrument that stood on q
fiat table against the wall. 1t seemed to
consist of standard on each end OF
which was fastened disk. besides several
other arrangements. the purpose OF which
j had not the slightest idea Between the
two ends rested glass tube OF some
liquid At one end was a lamp: the other
was fitted with an eyepiece like a tele-
scope. Beside the instrument on the
table lay some more eiass-capped tubes.
and st-ewn about were samples of raw
sugar
1T is a saccharimeter." explained
Kennedy also looking at it: IAN in
strument used to detect the amount OF
sugar held in solution; form OF
polariscope."
He was about TO turn back into the
outer office when an idea seemed &c
occur to him. He took the cartridge
from hts pocket and carefully scraped
off what he could of the powder tina,
still adhered to the outer rim. 1t wal
just a bit, but he dissolved II in some
liquid from a bottle on the table, filled
the open end. and placed this tube In
the saccharimeter where the first one
l noticed had been.
Carefully he lighted the lamp, Their
squinted through the eyepiece at this
tube of liquid containing what he had
derived from the cartridge. He made
some adjustments. and as he did SO hi.
face indicated that at last he begar
to see something dirnly.
IT thirk I know what we have here
he said. briefly. rising and placing tbs
tube and its contents in his poke,
with the other things he had discover
ed.
"Of course. il is only hint This in.
strumen, won't tell me finally But II
is worth following up
With final glance about to make
sure that We had overlooked nothing
Kennedy closed and locked the out.
side door.
I'm going directly up to the labora.
tory. Walter" decided Kennedy. M can.
while you can help me- very much 1,
you Will look up this Teresa de Leon
were written on the stationery of the
Pan-American Hotel. Get what YOU can
l leave 1t to you. And IL you can Ant
out anything about the others, sc
you finish"
1t was rather large contract II thu
story had reached the newspaper stage
! should have known how to 20 abou,
il, for there is no detective agency n
the world like the Star, and even or
the slender basis that we had, with ;
flock or reporters deployed at ever,
point IN the city. with telephones
wires. and cables busily engaged.
might have gathered priceless infor
nation in a few hours But, as Il was
whatever was to be got must be 20,
by me alone.
1 found Teresa de Leon registered at
the Pan-American. as Craig had sur
missed. Such inquiries as i was able to
make about the hotel did not show q
trace of reason for believing that Jose
Barrios had been numbered among her
visitors. While that proved nothing
as TO the relations of the two. IL was
at least resssuri1g as far as Anitra and
Eulaiie were concerned.
Not having been able to learn much
about the lady. 7 decided finally to send
up my card. and. to my satisfaction.