Evening star., 1922-02-10

set a bit. and laid it closely parallel
to the photographs.
Look at these. Walter" he said.
Now take this deep and sharp in
dentation. Well, there's a corre
spending one in the photograph. SO
YOU can pick them out one for an
other. Now here's one missing alto
gether on the paper. So it is in the
photograph.
Almost like a Schoolboy in his slee,
he was comparing the little round
circles made by the metal insertions
in an "anti-skid'' automobile tire.
Time and time again l had seen i'm
prints like that left in the dust and
grease of an asphalted street or the
mud of a road. 1t had never occurred
to me that they might be used in
any way. Yet shere Craig was, calm
ly tracing out the similarity before
my very eyes. identifying the marks
made in the photograph with the
prints left on the bits of paper.
AS | followed him l had a most
curious feeling of admiration for his
genius. Craig" l cried. that's the
thumb print of an automobile"
There speaks the yellow journal
ist." he answered merrily. "'Thumb-
print System Applied to Motor Cars
i can see the Sunday feature story
you have in your mind with that
headline already. Yes. Walter, that's
precisely what this is. The Berlin
with the most startling results"
But. Craig" l eXclaimed sud
denly. the paper prints. where did
YOU get them? What machine is it,
It's one not far from here he
,, answered sententiouSly, and | saw
he would say nothing. more that
would fin false suspicion on any
one. Still. my curiosity was SO great
that if there had been an opportunity
| certainly should have tried out his
lN.. bar
garage.
Kennedy would say nothing more.
! and we ate our luncheon in silence.
Fletcher, who had decided to lunch
with the Greenes, called Kennedy up
on the telephone to tell him it would
be all right for him to call on Miss
Bond later in the afternoon.
"And l may bring over the appa-
ratus ] once described to you to deter
mine just what her nervous condi-
| tion is?" he asked. Apparently the
answer was yes. for Kennedy hung
up the receiver with satisfied Good
| bye"
walter. want you to come along
with me this afternoon as my assist
ant Remember. I'm now DR.. Ken
nedy. the nerve specialist. and You
! are DR.. Jameson. my colleague, and
| we are to be in consultation on
| most important case"
do you think that's fairo" I asked
! hotly-"to take that girl off her
guard. to insinuate yourself into her
/ confidence as medical adviser, and
worm out of her some kind of fact
i discriminating some one? I suppose
! that's your plan, and l don't like the
ethics. or rather the lack of ethics, of
! the thing
"Now think minute. Walter. Per-
| haps l am wrong; l don't know. Ger
| tainly I feel that the end will justify
the means l have an idea that l can
get from Miss Bond the only clue that
| I need. one that will lead straight to
the criminal. Who knows? l have
| a suspicion that the thing I'm going
to do is the highest form of your So
called ethics. If what Fletcher tells
over this thing. Why should she be
so shocked over the death of an uncle
she did not live with? ] tell you she
knows something about this case that
i it is necessary for US to know, too. If
she doesn't tell some one. it will eat
her mind out. I'll add a dinner to the
| box of cigars we have already bet on
| this case that what I'm going to do is
| for the best--for her best"
! Again I yielded. for 1 was coming
| to have more and more faith in the
| old Kennedy I had seen made over
| gether we started for the Greenes.
| Craig carrying something in one of
| those long. black handbags which physi-
| clans use.
| Fletcher met us on the driveway.
He seemed to be very much affected,
! for his face was drawn and he
| shifted from one position to another
nervously, from which we inferred
| that Miss Bond was feeling worse. 1t
was late afternoon, almost verging
| on twilight. as he led us through the
reception hall and thence onto long
porch overlooking the bay and redo
lent with honeysuckle.
| Miss Bond was half reclining in a
wicker chair as we entered. She
| started to rise to greet US, but
Fletcher gently restrained her. say
| ing, as he introduced us, that he
guessed the doctors would pardon
any informally from an invalid.
J (To be concluded in tomorrow's Star.)
kl.s g.