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CHAPTER VIII-Continued

shaken for an instant, for her whole
appearance, not only of face, but the
articulation and poise Of body was
strikingly different. But with the Sec
ond look, the resemblance began to
shape itself. When saw the tattoo
mark on her arm, that, of course, re-
duced the case to certainty.
at took only dozen questions to
convince me that In the person of
Jane Perkins she was totally ignorant
of the crime, which was exactly what
expected. then hypnotized her, and
succeeded in fishing up her other per-
sonality, from whom got not only the
admission that she had strangled Hen
ry Morgan, but a considerable part of
the story which I have just been tell
ing you of the events which led up to
the commission of the crime. She did
not recover the personality of Jane
Perkins until / called her out from
the inner room to begin the examina-
ton"
By that time Ashton began to come
out of his daze, had recovered again
the powers of speech and motion.
which the astounding nature Of the
doctors revelation had temporarily de-
prived him of.
"She mustn't be at large another
minute" he said.
He walked across the room toward
the telephone.
"Wait" commanded the doctor.
"There's plenty of time. You haven't
got the whole story yet, and you may
spoil everything if you move without
It. The girls part of the crime is only
half of it, and the least important part
at that. She was hardly more than a
passive instrument. The party you
want, the important one to get, is the
man who sent her on that fatal errand
to the lonely house in Oak Ridge that
night. The man you want is Josiah
Haines"
At that a smoldering spark of in
credulity in Ashton's mind was famed
into a flame.
"Come," he said; 'you have told me
that the wild South Sea island girl
of this story is really Jane Perkins;
:, but you aren't going to tell me that
Josiah Haines is submerged and Sec
ondary consciousness beneath the ur-
bane exterior of our friend Wilkins.
That would be drawing it bit too
strong, wouldn't it?"
Without making any answer, the
doctor turned back to his instrument,
replaced upon it the megaphone which
had been there during the conduct of
the examination. and made some
trifling adjustments In the instrument.
And then, once more, addressed the
attorney.
"You thought was joking" he said,
"when I told wilkins that this instru-
ment was a phonopneumosphygm
graph. The name, perhaps, is a bit
clumsy. It Is rather a description of
the instrument, rather than handy
name for it. It is three instruments in
one. A photograph first. by which
sounds are recorded upon a moving
cylinder in such manner that they can
be reproduced. In exactly the same
manner the pulse of person on whose
wrist this little instrument is strapped
Is recorded in the wax of the cylinder.
So 1t is also, recording sphygmo-
graph. And thirdly. and last of all, the
elastic strap which fastened around
Wilkins chest had its two ends con-
nected by little instrument which
registered, very scientifically and very
truly, every movement of his respira-
ton. Everything, from the slightest,
most family drawn breath to a gasp,
will be indicated by that little instru-
ment and recorded along with pulse
beat on the same cylinder which re-
cords the sounds. The long thin tube
there that looks like a thermometer
will show, when start this instrument
going, exactly how the man was ex-
aiming breathed; when he held his
breath, when he caught it, when he
expelled it. And the bulb which you
see, half filled with the red liquid, will
show you the way his heart was beat
ing"
he said; 'it's inhuman. / can't look
at it; and as he spoke, he walked
away to the other side of the room.
But he came back and stood beside
us when the photograph began again
reporting the questions the doctor had
asked the giri about VIII Harvey, and
her answers to them.
whats this part Of the examination
fOr?" Ashton asked. "You know all
about it; and you'd sprung your mine
on Wilkins"
There's another mine of different
sort little further along" said the
doctor. II wanted to give him time
to recover his possession, to per-
suade himself that that, too, was all
false alarm; that my mention of the
names of Haines and Franklin was
\ Just coincidence.
."You see." he concluded, II had two