Evening star., 1922-06-17

oAOHSs udu not Comc tncES.
A moment later sounds of hooffs
on the hard road Interrupted US and
Ritter Smith dashed up.
lust overlook a farmer down the
road" he painted. Says he saw an
automobile waiting at the stone
a girl and a man in 1t. He couldn't
, recognize them. The top was up and
! they went so fast"
Together we retraced the way to
| the stone bridge. Sure enough, there
j on the side Of the road were marks
| grass about was trampled. and as
we searched Kennedy reached down
and picked up something white. At
| least 1t had been white. But now
| 1t was spotted with fresh blood. as
though some one had tried to stop
| a nosebleed.
He looked at it~more closely. In
the corner was embroidered little
Evidently there had been a strug-
| gle and a car had whizzed Off. Gloria
| was gone. But with whom? Had the
| message which he had seen her read
at the start been from Du Mond?
Was the plan to elope and so avoid
| his wife? Then why the struggle?"
| Absolutely nothing more developed
! from the search. An alarm was at
once sent out and the police all over
! the country notihed There was moth
/ ing to do now but wait Mrs
! Bracket was frantic. But 1t was not
| now the scandal that worried her. 1t
! was Gloria's safety.
That night in the laboratory Ken
sedy took the handkerchief and with
| the blood on 1t made a most peculiar
test before a Strengthening little
instrument.
1t seemed to consist of a little
cylinder Of glass immersed in water
| kept at the temperature of the body.
Between two minutes wire pincers
| or series in the cylinder was a very
! small piece Of some tissue. To the
| lower serre was attached thread.
| The upper one was attached to a
| sort of lever ending in a pen that
| moved over a ruled card.
Every emotion" remarked Ken
nedy as he watched the movement
| of the pen in the zigzag lines over
| the card. produces its physiological
| effect. Fear. rage, pain. hunger are
primitive experiences, the most pow
man. I suppose you have heard of
the recent studies of DR.. Walter
Cannon of Harvard of the group Of
! remarkable alterations in bodily
| economy under emotion"'
nodded. and Kennedy resumed
"On the surface one may see the ef-
feet of blood vessels contracting. In
pallor: one may see cold sweat, or
the saliva stop when the tongue
| cleaves to the roof of the mouth. or
one may see the pupils dilate. hairs
raise, perspiration. become quick. or
the beating Of the heart, or trem-
| bling of the muscles. notably the lips.
But one cannot see such evidences
of emotion II he is not present at
the time. How can We reconstruct
them?"
He paused a moment. then resumed.
n q
body which do not reveal so easily
the emotions. But the effect often
outlasts the actual emotion. There
are special methods by which one can
study the feelings. That is what l
have been doing here"
But how can you?" queried
There is what is called the SYM
pathetic nervous system" he explain
ed. above the kidney there are also
glands called the suprarenal, which
excrete substance known as ad
renin. In extraordinary small amounts
adrenin affects this sympathetic sys-
tenn. In emotions of various kinds
reflex action is sent to the suprarenal
glands, which causes a pouring into
the blood of adrenin.
''On the handkerchief of Gloria
Brackett I obtained plenty of COM
paratively fresh blood. Here in this
machine l have between these two
pincers minute segment Of rabbit
intestine"
He withdrew the solution from the
cylinder with pipette. then intro
duced some more of the dissolved
blood from the handkerchief. The
first effect was a strong contraction
Of the rabbit intestine. then in a min
ute or SO the contractions became
+, fairly even with the base line on the
card.
Such tissue" he remarked. "is no
ticeably affected by even one part in
over a million Of adrenin. See here.
by the writing lever, the rhythmical
contractions are recorded. Such a
| strip of tissue will live for hours. will
contract and relax beautifully with a
regular rhythm, which, as you see,
can be graphically recorded. This is
my adrenin test"
Carefully he withdrew the ruled pa
, per with its tracingS.
IT'S very simple test after ALL"
| he said, laying beside this tracing an
other which he had made previously.
There you see the difference between
/! what I may call quiet blood and 'ex-
cited blood"
looked at the two sets of tracings.
Though they were markedly different
/ did not, of course. understand what
they meant. What do they show to
an expert?" I asked. perplexed.
Fear" he answered. laconically.
lily. She did not elope. She was
forced to go!'
Attacked and carried orr
queried.
Il did not say that" he replied
Perhaps our original theory that her
| nose was bleeding may be correct. 1t
might have started in the excite
ment, the anger and fear at what
happened, whatever it was. Certain
ly the amount Of adrenin in her blood
shows that she was laboring under
strong enough emotion"
Our telephone rang insistently and
Kennedy answered it. AS he talked,
although 1 could hear only one side
of the conversation, I knew that the
message was from Chase and that he
had something important about the
| missing necklace.
What was it?" asked, eagerly, as
| he hung up the receiver.
"Chase has traced the necklace" he
reported; that is. he has discovered
| the separate stones. unset, pawned in
several shops. The tickets were is
actly fits Gloria Bracket"
I could only stare at him. What
we had all feared had actually taken
place. Gloria must have taken the
! necklace herself. Though we had
feared it and tried to discount It,
/ nevertheless the certainty came as d
| shock.
Why should she have taken it?"
I considered.
For many possible reasons re-
turned Kennedy. You saw the life
she was leading. Her own income
probably went to keep those harpies
going. Besides, her mother had cut
her allowance. She may have need
ed money very badly
Perhaps they had run her into
debt" agreed. though the thought
was disagreeable.
How about that other little wom4
an we saw?" suggested Kennedy.
you remember how Gloria seemed