Evening star., 1922-03-10

were both interested in spiritualism. The
husband was especially Influenced by Mrs
May Pepper. medium. and Mr.. Harrington.
her manager. The husband says he re-
ceiyes message from his wife each night.
and Craig goes to him, secretes
machine in a cabinet. listens to the
old man receiving series ;a. Of RAJ Iapp,niggs ig
and then gets his machine secretly from
its hiding place and goes to his laboratory.
The message that night had asked the nus. nus
band TO have the prescription OF the piiis
hiled again.
Kennedy almost dragged me back
to our apartment. he was in sueh
hurry, to examine the apparatus at
his leisure. He turned on all the
lights, took the thing out of its case
and stripped off the two sheets OF
ruled paper wound around the two re-
volying drums He laid them fiat on
the table and studied them for some
minutes with evidently growing sat-
isfdction.
At last he turned to me and said
walter. here is ghost causht III
the act"
| looked obviously at the irregular
up-and-down scrawl on the paper.
while he rang up the homleiae si ou1ear far
O'Connor to call him up the nrst
thing in the morning.
Still eyeing with satisfaction the
record traced on the sheets or paper
te lighted a cigarette in matter-of-
fact way and added: ut proves to oe
very much fiesh-and-blood ghost;
this John 1t walked up to the wall
back of that cabinet. raped. lsteneo
to old Vandam, raped some nloTe'
got the answer it wanted. ana walk
ed deliberately away. The cabinet,
As you may have noticed. is IN tne
corner of the room with one snoe
along the hallway. The ghost must
havefbeen in the hall"
Not so fast. Walter" laughed
Craig. isn't it enough for one nign. ~.
THAI we have found out that mucns
Fortunately l was tired. or l certain
" should have dreamed of rappinss ana
of "Iohn'' that night. I was awakened
early by Kennedy talking with some
one over the telephone IL was III
spector OConnor.
OF course. | heard only one side of
the conversation. but as near as l
could gather Kennedy was asking the
inspector to obtain several samples
of ink for him I had not heard the
first part of the conversation ana was
considerably surprised when henneos
hung up the receiver and said:
"Vandam had the prescription nlIe1
again early this morning, and II Will
soon be in the hands of O'Connor.
hone / haven't spoiled things by act
ing too soon, but l don't want 10 run
.sWell,, I said. sit is incomprehensi-
BILE to me. First I suspected suicide.
Then 1 suspected murder. Now l al
most suspect a murder and suicide.
The fact is ! don't know 3~ 'us. MsnsonN Mna.
fioored I wonder if Vandam would
voluntarily take all the capsules at
once in order to be with his wife?
"One of them alone would be auite
sufficient if the ghost should take
think III Will. to walk
in tha daytime" replied Craig eng
matically. "I don't want to run any
chances, as 1 have said. I may pc
wrong in my theory OF the case case. va. VA
ter. 80 let US not discuss this phase
of it until have gone step Iarsnef
and am sure of my ground. oCon-
nor's man will get the capsules pc
fore vandam has a chance to take
the first one, anyhow. .ra the EnosS ar nconn nau
nor tells me that Vandam's lawyer
visited him yesterday, and In all PROB
ability a new will IS being rfade-pef-
haps has already been made
We breakfasted in silence and later
rode down to the Office Of DR.. Hanson.
who greeted us enthusiastically.
'I've solved it at last" he cried'
"and it's easy.
Kennedy looked gravely over the
into his> hand and seemed very mucn
interested in the probable quantity OF
morphine that must have been taken
tt. yield such an analysis Ihe phys.-
clan had a textbook open on ms desk.
"Our old ideas of the infallible test
of morphine poisoning are all ex-
ploded." he said. excitedly, oeginnlns
TO read a passage he had marked in
the book.
the pupils-that is to say. where they
are not symmetrically contracted-ls
Droof that a case is not one OF mar
cotism. or morphine poisoning IN
which the unsymmetrical contraction
"There. now. until 1 happened to
run across that in one of the authori,
ties / had supposed the symmetrlcal
contraction of the pupils OF the eyes
to be distinguishing symptoms OF
morphine poisoning. Prof. Kennedy,
IN NV opinion we can, after all. make
ont our case as one of morphine pol
..Is that case in the book all you
base your opinion on: askeo IFais
with excessive poli,eness.
'.Yes. sir replied the DOCTOR re-
luctaptly- .,, .,f
YOU will Investigate that case qaoLea
from Prof. Taylor. you VIII nha tna.
jt has been proved that the palieh.
had one glass eye.
"Then my contention collapses, and
she was not poisoned!
..No I do not say that. All L say
is that expert testimony would reiu!e
MS as far as we have gone. But II
Won will let me make few tests OF
NV own 1 can readily clear up tnat
end of the case. I now feel sure. Let
me take these samples to my laD-
oratory.' ..
1nsnector O'Connor waiting Tor US IN
the corridor of the Criminal Courts
bnilding as we left the office OF the
coroner's physician. He rusned up 70
Kennedy and showed into MS hand
RTannedy narrowly inspected the oox.
nnened it and looked thoughtfuiiy Al
the six white capsules lying so inno-
Gently within.
"One of these capsules would nave
been worth hundreds of thousands OF
SoIiars to John" said Craig contem-
platively. as he shut the box ana aet
nosited IL carefully in his INSIDE ves.
pocket. az don't believe | even saio
good morning to you. OConnor: ne ne
continued. Il hope / haven't kept you
waiting here long. Have you obtain
ed the samples of ink?"
"Yes. professor. Here they are. AS
soon as you telephoned this morning
7 sent my men out separately 70 get
them. There's the ink from the drug
eist. this is from the vandam library.
this is from Farrington's room. ana
this is from Mrs. Peppers apartment.
THANK you, inspector. ] don't
know what I'd do without your help.
said Kennedy. eagerly taxing 1our n,
small walls from him. Science 10 all
right, but organization enables sci
ence to work quickly. And quickness
is the essence of this case"
During the afternoon Kennedy was
very busy in his laboratory, where
found him that night after my hur-
ried dinner. from which he was alb
sent.