Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-14

family. The Two brothers drank hearfiy TO
next mornins HsrIinsson found LAWS L.ns.
room and made various st-i investiss tions. Mt.
Langley's will had been stolen. -
A. FTER breakfast Kennedy tact
~ fully Withdrew from the fam
~ lily. and did the same. We
wandered of in the direction
OF the stables and there fell to ad-
miring some Of the horses. The groom;
pleasant sort of = fellow. was quite
ready to talk. and soon he and Craig
were deep in discussing the game OF
the north country.
Many rabbits about here?" asked
exhausted the larger game.
"Oh. yes. saw one this morning,
"indeed?" said Kennedy. DO you
suppose you could catch couple for
me?"
"Guess 1 could. sir-alive. you
ooh. yes. alive-I don't want you to
violate the game laws. This is the
closed season, isn't it"'
Yes. sir. but then it's all right,
sir. here on the estate"
emo. keep them here in thestable
have them. If anybody asks about
them, say they belong to Tom"
Craig handed q small treasury note
grin and touched his hat.
know when have the Dummies"
|. AZ we walked slowly back from
the stables we caught sight Of Tom
VNkaf In q
of in the motor boat with his uncle
and cousin. Craig waved at him, and
he walked slowly up to meet US.
while you're In Saranac." said
Craig buy me a dozen or so test
tubes. Only don't let any one here at
They might ask questions"
While they were gone Kennedy
stole into James Langleyss room and
after a few minutes returned to our
room with the hunting jacket. He
lens. Then he filled a drinking glast
with warm boiled water and added a
few pinches Of table salt. With q
piece Of sterilized gauze from DR..
PutnamB medicine chest he carefully
washed "a q few portions of the coat
and set the glass and the sauze soak
Ing in 1t aside. Then he returned the
coat to the closet where he had found
it. Next, as silently, he stole into
Juniors room and repeated the proc
ess with his hunting Jacket, using
while I am out Of the room. Wal
tor" he said. II want you to take
these two glasses, cover them. and
number them and on a slip of paper
which you must retain, place the
names Of the owners Of the respec.
IL hate to play SPY and would much
rather come out in the open. but
there is nothing else to. do, and 1t IL
much better for all concerned that
I should play the, game secretly just
now. There may be no cause for sus-
forgive myself for starting q family
row. And then asain-but we shall
see" ;:
After / had numbered and recorded
tho glasses Kennedy returned. and we
went downstairs again. !,
remarked as we stood on the wide We
eyes" he replied. ut may be neces-
sary to go back to New York to deive
into that part OF It before We get
through. but hope not. Wen walt.
US to say that he had caught the rao-
bits. Kennedy at once hurried to the
stable. There he rolled up his sleeves.
pricksd q vein In his arm, and IN
jected q small quantity Of his owE
blood into one Of the rabbits. the
other he did not touch.
II was late in the afternoon when
Tom returned from town with his
uncle and cousin. He seemed even
more agitated than usual. Without q
word he hurried UP from the landing
and sought US out.
cried, opening a COPY Of the Record.
and laying It nat on the library table.
There on the front page was Lewis
Langley's picture with a huge scare
MYsrER1ous CASE OF sPoNTA-
ITS all out" groaned Tom. as We
bent over to read the account. And
Under the date Of the day previous,
. Saranac dispatch ran:
Lewis Langley, we'll known as
New York, and eldest son Of the late
Lewis Langley, the banker. WAS dis
covered dead under the most uays-
ferrous circumstances this morning
at Camp Hang ovt twelve miles from
The death Of Old Kroek in
tim in one Of Marryats most thrilling
tales was not more gruesome than
this. actual fact. 1t is without doubt
bustion, such as 10 recorded beyond
dispute in medical and medico-fe
text books Of the past two centuries.
Scientists in this city consulted for
the Record agree that. while rare,
spontaneous human combustion Is an
established fact, and that everything
in this curious case goes to show
that another has been added to the
already we'll authenticated list Of
cases recorded in America and Eu-
rope. The family refuse to be inter-
viewed. which seems to indicate that
mac have = solid basis Of fact.
Then followed a circumstantial &C.
count Of the life Of Langley and the
events leading up to the discovery Of
the body-faIrly accurate In itself,
but highly colored.
1.-THE Record man must have made
mentsd - I finished reading the dis
patch. .And-well, they must have
done some hard work in New York to
get this story up SO completely-See,
after the dispatch follow q lot Of in.
teryiews, and here is = short article
ss y. Sssr :scst Il: Rec
ord having an article! HarrinEton
asked. read It aloud, professor, 10
we can all hear It," i
Spontaneous human combustion,
or cetacauSis ebriosus,'" began Craig,
" Is one Of the baf1ink human scien-
tho mysteries. Indeed, there can be
no doubt but that individuals have In
some strange and inexplicable man.
nsr caught nre and been partially or
almost wholly consumed.
"'Some have attributed 1t to gases
drogen. Once It was noted at the
Hotel Dieu in Paris that 4 body on