New Britain herald., 1922-04-29
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 CHAPTER MI
 Time dragged after that. Once the bid was on its way to Chicago, there was nothing 10 do but wait. December came February and then
 "Ect is come, 'Eet Is come," Ba'- tiste. waving his arms wildly, in spite of the stiffness of his heavy mackinaw. "lcet is come! have open eetl can not wait. ;ct say we shall have the contract; Ah, oui. oui oui oni,"
 ''liet say five thousand dollars cosh, Enthusiastically, from Ra'tistc. Bat 'tiste, he have the friend in Denver who will make the bond"
 But how about the machinery: we'll need a hundred -thousa nd dollar plant before we're through. Ba 'tiste. :"
 An" The old French Canadians s jaw dropped, "Ba'tiste have not think of that"
 Tomorrow morning we take the train to Denver. and from there I'll go on to Boston. I'll raise the money some way"
 They went on to Denver. there to seek out the few friends Ba'tiste pos sessed, to argue one of them into a loan of ten thousand dollars on the land and trustworthy qualities which formed the total of Ba'tiste's re- sources, to gain frCm the other the necessary bond to cover the contract "a contract which Barry Houston knew only too well might never be fulfilled.
 Came Chicago and the tcchnicaIi- ties of ironing out the final details Of the contract. Then, dealer in mill lions and the possessor of nothing, Houston went onward toward Boston.
 He wandered the aisle of the sleeper, entered the smoking com partment and slumped into q scat in a far corner, smoking in a detached manner, often pulling on his cigar long after lengthy minutes of reflec- ton had allowed its ashes to cool
 About him the usual conversation ragged. With sudden interest, Hous- ton forgot his own problems to lis ten.
 'Speaking of gruesome things" the talker had said. reminds me. Pm doctor, former interne in Bell strand Hospital in New York.
 ''They'vc pig room on the fifth floor where somebody is always dis secting. One Sunday night l hap pened to look in and saw a man in there, murdering another one with a wooden mallet."
 "Murdering him?" The doctor laughed.
 Well, I should have said acting out q murder. You can't very well murder d dead man. The fellow he was killing already was a corpse.
 You mean"
 Just what I'm saying. Pretty big doctors, I learned, all from I5os- ton. They had taken q cadaver from the refrigerator and stood it in a certain position Then the one man had struck it on the head with the mallet with all the force he could summon. Of course it knocked the corpse down-I'm telling you, it was gruesome, even to an interne. The last l. saw Of them, tho doctors were working with their microscopcs-cv dently to see what effect the blow had produced
 hot lt i'd
 Never found out You sec op- posite sides in a trial are always carrying out experiments and trying to keep the other fellow from know ing what's going on"
 "You-~you don't know who the men werc?' Houston, forcing him self to be casual, had asked the question. The young doctor shook his head.
 "No-except that they were from Boston. suppose the other man was district attorney"
 You never learned with what mur- der case it was conncctcd?"
 No"
 Pardon me for asking. + come from Boston and was trying to recall such a case. You don't re- member what time of the year it was, or how long ago"'
 "Yes, l do. 1t was in the summer, along about two or two and q half years ago. 1
 Houston slumped back into his corner.
 But once in hls berth, the picture continued to rise before him: of d man killing another with malIct. | Had it been Worthngton, the de- termined, over zealous district attor- ney, who had struggled to send him 10 the penitentiary for life. Yet If that had been Warrington, if those ! experts had found evidences against lim-
 Why had this damning evidence not | been used against him?