Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-04-18

Heaven itself smiles on the true
mates, who find their true aim and OBJ
ject in each other"
"You-er-that is you think Evelyn
wants me?"
Dual nodded. "She asked me to
send you up"
Then I'll go, you know" Dayton
rose. "I'll be there If you want me.
I-er-good morning" He walked
off very erect and square shouldered.
"Bravo!" applauded Laredo. "An'
while Senor Dayton consoles his
fiance, shall we not discover the
missing image, and the emerald, per-
baps?"
AN the proof of who took it,"
Heffy added.
And of who gave Charley the
bills" l threw in.
Dual shot me a glance of what /
felt was approval. Exactly" he said.
First, il DR.. Osborne will permit it,
| l should like to inspect the bodies
of the Indian and Professor Win
garde?"
Certainly" Osborne assented, II
would be glad to have you do so.
While there seems small doubt about
my diagnosis, confess there is an un-
usual atmosphere about the affair -
the locality of the wounds, and -
well, I'd rather like to hear your opin.
ion."
Semi Dual nodded. "Mr. Glace told
me. Shall we go to the card-room at
once?"
Osborne rose and the rest of US fol-
lowed. In group we passed toward
the door, finding our way among the
tables. In the rear with Heffy noted
many eyes turn and follow Dual. 1t
was always so when he appeared with
his quiet, commanding bearing, so in
keeping with his splendid figure and
poise.
We passed out of the dining-room
and into the lobby where groups Of
the hotels guests were still lingering
in conversation, and on across it to
the closed door of the room in which
the nights victims lay stretched on
the green tables where so many games
Of chance had been waged, none more
bizarre or. unexpected in outcome
however, than the one they had played
with fate, and lost.
Osborne set the door open and mo-
toned Dual inside. Laredo, Heffy
and l came after, and then the physi-
clan closed the door, and we five were
alone with the dead
They lay as We had left them, save
that Wingarde's face was rapidly be.
coming mottled with purple patches,
which shone from the puffed waxen
skin in gruesome manner and spoke
more plainly than ever of the deadly
virus which had been injected into his
veins.
shone into the room from the outer
day, he looked frail, weak, pitiful, with
his high-bred features framed in iron
gray hair.
Heffy at once hustled forward be-
side Osborne and Dual. Laredo went
over and dropped into seat by a win.
dow, after the barest scrutiny of the
dark eyes turn now and then to where
we were gathered about Wingarde;
but he made no movement to join us,
maintaining the attitude OF an onlook-
er rather than an active participant in
the scene.
Osborne threw back Wipgarde's
coat and drew open the shirt. Here
is the wound" he said, pointing to the
puncture in the breast.
Dual bent slightly forward to in.
spect it closely.
yep, that's it," declared Heffy.
"Glace found it, but it was my idea
that the snake fanged the professor
first and that he pulled it loose and
flung it away an it hit Charley and
bit him in tn neck. Gosh, can't you
see the DANCED thing settin' its
teeth through that thin shirt the pro.
fessor's got on an hangin' there wrigg.
ling?"
IAN ingenious theory surely" said
Semi, still viewing the little blue
puncture which had not bled even
enough to stain, by SO much as O
speck, the silken fabric of the shirt.
Heffy nodded.
ut was that made Osborne finally
conclude it could be a snake bite" he
averred. Before that he was puzzled.
Senior Laredo thought that might be
the way, of it, too.
Dual nodded slightly. His eyes turn.
from the wound to Laredo.
The Mexican met his glance square.
ly. 81 thought, senor, that there
might have been something venomous
among the rocks, where the Indian
was found" he remarked.
There are doubtless some deadly
thing in that region" said Semi
This is typically envenomed
wound, made by an exceedingly sharp
and pointed object, which doubtless
conveyed its poison without cutting
and vessels, exactly as a hypodermic
needle may convey a solution beneath
the skin without drawing blood All.