The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1916, Page 13

— 2 4 ene ripe Delootive arreae CHAPTER M1. The 8 olen Lett rs eatly take Bhat | have to say Ie per. my word featly straight and above buurd? 1 Bnow something of those let. tere, 1 beheve it would be a pub Ho service, as things are, to get them and destroy them—net to pub- ah them, Stil, ft st isn't in bupiness for its health, tel you what [il do; 1b cant stop you fr getting them, But 1 think, tn fair- nese you should fot me find out, if 1 oan, from what source they are com ing to the Star, 1 won't interfere, | promise it, And then I'll ieave It to (be honor of Star afierward whether they are to be publisued, t dhink when you see what might hap- pea youll agree with me. Let me telephone Kennedy, We'll go ry you under those conditions, will stay out of i: and let you get the letters; but one of us must dnd out where the letters come from, Do | make it perfectly clear? Tt was evident that Bryce was con- siderably more impressed with the importance of the undertaking he had engineered for the Star than he had been at first, He thought for a mo- ment, then quickly replied: “I'll do that.” As we rode uptown, ofter I had called up Kennedy and arranged to meet him, 1 asked Bryce: “How did you hear about the letters? What do you expect to have to pay for them? “Nothing, as far as 1 Know,” he re+ plied. “1 understood that they were offered as a sort of revenge Dy @ party who had been aggrieved. This morn- ing the Star was approached in & reundabout way about them, and the matter was referred to me to look tgto. I understood that an actor or agtresa whose name Was not divulged had secured the letters in some way froin Hamilton's private files. Of course, there must be # scandal back of it, Dut I don't profess to know what It is, Tho advertisement | showed you was just a rough draft of what 1 thought I'd drop into the paper to-morrow in case 1 got the ue at aa uptowa station 1 hast- explained the eituatien to him fully that { could over the tele- and with characteristic visor quickly mapped out our campaign, Bryce was to proceed to the ap- petnted place alone, as agreed, while Kennedy and I were to follow about half @ block behind, across the street. After Bryce had been eettled in the back room, we were to enter the front room and await developments as vest we might. Dolan’e was a dull-lighted, noisy t im an unsavory neighborhood, far from the railroad freight ‘and consequently was the of those gentry who ride with- payment on what they oall “sido- Pullmans,” otherwise freight A if ati tt We waited some time after Bryce entered, but ag the neighborhood was getting more and more uproar~ lous with the nearer approach of midnight, we decided that it would be *afest for us to follow him tn soon, zspeciilly as two or three times we narrowly escaped getting into fights ich in no way concerned us [n- side In the front room was more real viciousness, I vertly believe, than | had ever seen on the other side of the clty—the much-talked out east side of New York, There were men in that room whose abilities must have ranged from stealing the brasses off ears in the yards to covery vartety of murder and sudden death, ws glad that Kennedy had cau- thoned me on our way across the city te rub some dirt on my collar and clothes as well as my hands and face, They * ‘cast, had nothing on us as te os g members of the "great aes was concerned, Y had waited fully @ bour past the ne when the lette thould have bee lelivered to Bry; and sull he Was (tting at the tab tm the back Teom, as Kennedy ma: iged to see through an open door by walking gerosa the front room. now and then. TO Was rapidly becoming a question ‘whether the strect was not much ee ae tr tee nate af Frails Wirard of € The Evening Worl > PREASU by ARTHUR B REEVE IRE VAULT | Wien Craig Kennedy, me World of Clashing Wits and Cross Purposes, 4 ast Keanedy nudged me ia tome er te 1 nee Bryce,” # hanpored vo found bin bunched up at af small taole, feeding the #tar pers) ton and -enen wary gieaces ed diegustediy, “I 4 boy entered wide entrance, toned At the Fvom, atnaied out Mryve woe lthoring ve in nie vival f interest In the Star, and walked! ver to him Prom the Star?’ whispered t ¥ to Bryce | liryeo nodded, and ‘he handed) hima Hie tore it open quiekty, | dread it Under bis breath for our wnetit tt was u wae | Kennedy, in the meantime, bad | sidied inconspicuously out Inte the front roou, leaving me with Dryee. Humph! The deal t off,” mut: | tered Lryce: then, to the bey: “Who gave you this note At once the bey grew suspicious! and edged away, "Cail from the Longacre Theatre—that’s all | know,” he said, as ho disappeared, Well, Jameson,” satd Bryce ris: 1 muppose you are as well sati oe Hed. At leant, the iettara won't be| published, though 1 can't quite ece| what interest you have in that,” | To teli the truth, | was greatly dis. | appotnted. It would have been a! great satisfaction merely to know) where the letters were. As it was, they might be offered to the Record, Or some of the other papers, own about Wall Street among hostile in- terests. There was no telling what| might happen, I was disappointed, | and | sald 90, | There was no time to parley, and | We got Up to follow Kennedy. To our surprise, he was nowhere to be seen, and, after hanging about as long ‘al we dared, Bryce and I walked up va street and jumped on the first sur- face car, | At the apartment fortunately 1 found Kennedy, otherwise I should | have gore back and made a tour of | the hill district with a couple of plain clothes men, “Just followed the boy,” was his la- conic reply to my question where he had gone. “He was a real messenger boy, after all, The call came from the Longacre Theatre, but he couldn't re. member much about the man who gave it to him, except that he got a 50- cent Up and the man was middie- aged. It might have been @ spectator, or an actor, or one of the attendants, as far as 1 can find out We haven't learaed much. What de you think of it yourself, Walter?” l cannot reeali that my opinions on cases bad ever been offany great istance to Kennedy, yet he was always quizaing me, and I believe I helped him, much as @ certain pro- fessor of ours in college had said be- fore an examination: “When to doubt about a question, think it all out—and write down the opposite,” This time, however, Kennedy was unusually attentive as I elaborated my ideas. “I think that {n some way Smith knows more about those letters than would appear,” 1 answered slowly, “For example, it occurs to me that if the letters were pubiished, and suits begun, it would mean a very good thing, running up ‘n° the hundreds of thousands for Smith and his part- ners in defending the suits.” “Rather peculiar, then, that he should be so active in attempting to locate the letters,” put in Kennedy. "Oh, thi part of his astute scheme, | sup " I maintained stoutly; “to pose before Hamilton as leaving No stone uaturned to ert ihe ietters back, while at the same time using them to enrich himself. It is my opinion tl he started out, or some one acting for him started out, to get those letters publisned the Star, Then he decided that he had not cov his tracks carefully enough by trying to find them, and, of course, when you brought myself —* representative of the Star—into the case, that scared him off. That's why the letters didn't show up— called off, I suppose, until after we pane our bluff of finding them, and ail.” ‘Well, if that's the case.” said Craig decidedly, “he'll get stung. Suppose | should find those letters? Hamilton, is sincere in wanting them Back, isn't he? Well, he is my ollent, after all, not Smith. That's an interesting theory, Walter, anywa: 1 do not think Craig meant any more than that, either, at the time, But a few minutes when 4 mes- sage came M, he to: it over to me with the remark; “This grows inter- esting.” It was just a brief Mne from the Pinkerton man who was shadowing Smith and read: Attended seat junter and Viole “The messenger boy came from the Longacre.” | cried triumphantly, Craig s. returned to the pamphlets he had collected from va- rious sources on locks and safe- guards. ‘A few moments later the telephone tinkled, and the detectives who had been assigned to follow Latham and Harding sent in a joint report. Their lines had evidently crossed. Both Latham and Harding had attended the opera, sitting in the HM» milton box with Miss Clyde Hamilton, the daugh- ter, and Miss Meta Hasilton, a favor- ite niece of the trust magnate. Th party had included Mra. Hamilten, the at of Clyde and mother of Meta, why, after the death of Clyde's mother, Dresided oves the Ham- \Such Is Life! THis 1S THE SANE ) Priced TIE You ALWAYS BUY LMR JOHN SAne PRICED HAT, You USUALLY BUY NRS JOHN ‘The sixth member of the party had been Austin Ford, Latham’s partner. He was considerably younger than Latham, and we knew little about him. The girls had come down with Mrs. Hamilton from Cliffside, the Hamilton home in the Ramapos, dur- ing the afternoon, and had gone back on the theatre train which Hamilton had bad the raliroad run regularly for the “colonists om this road, whicb he controlled. r throwing any light on the mysterious offer and withdrawal of the Hamilton letters, the last report did pot accomplish anything. Still, 1 was confirmed in my opinion that Smith was ponsibie, at least, to a reat extent, though just how far tham afd Harding might be con- cerned I was unable to guess, CHAPTER IV. A Mysterious [lin-ss. HE clock had tong aince struck twelve, and Kennedy was still deeply Immersed tn bis literature of the strong room, with no prospect of giving it up for hours yet. When he was working up @ case, and, indeed, often when he had noth- ing especially on his mind, Craig found it one of the most dificult tasks to persuade himself to go to bed. He was a veritable olghthawk, and of- tem I have known him deliberately to put off @ piece of work all day in or- der to do it after the lighte were lighted, There seemed to be something @timulating about artificial light to Craig, something tnherent in gas and electricity that even the most com- plete solitude of sunshine did mot afford to his mental processes. Per- haps it was a relic of the long hours he had put in as a student working for his doctor's degree and professor- ship. An any rate, it was now @ more or less settled obsession. 1 bad about made up my mind to turn in when @ very scared and al- most pale negro stuck his head tm at the door. “Is either of yoh gemmen Mistah Kennedy 7" he asked, looking anxious. ly from one of us to the other, and addressing me, I indicated Craig. “*Cause if yon is,” he added Dreath. leasly, “yoh is to come down to the Chansons Arms immediately.” “Why? asked Craig, “What has happened? Who sent you?" “Mr, Hamilton is very sick, sah, 7 think he’s had a stroke or something sah. I'm his chauffeur, and the car's downstairs.” We hurried down as fast as wo could and climbed into the ear, Then for the first time the irregularity of the proceedings occurred to me “Does Hamilton live at the Chansons 7" T asked the chauffeur eyeing ther suspiciousty. “ sah,” he replied. ne ain't up to his big country place ar Cléffride he usually stops at the Mil lenniuin Club, in town, sah,” ©, How FINE | 10 Lime T kiss YouR Boss HOW ME SOMETHING FUCH MORE EXPENSIVE I'VE NAD A RAISE OF H | NOW AY ae ell RAISED sae “Why did you ask him that?" asked Cra! “Well, the Chansons Arms, you know, bas a sort of reputation of its own. It regular colony of actresses and near actresses.” “Ob!" sald Kennedy, lapsing toto silence; and I could see that he was as much interested and puszied as myself. It was very late, the streets were almost deserted, and it took very Iit- tle time for us to pull up at @ narrow ekyscraper of a hotel twelve or tour- teen stories high, In a aide street, Just off the gayest part of Broac- way. Another oar was standing at the curd ahead of us. We hurried io through the door, following the chauffeur, past the office, which was empty, and up In an elevator. I could not help feeling the air of suppressed excitement that seemed to pervade the place. At the eighth floor the elevator stopped, and we walked out Into the thickly carpeted hall, Outside a room, down the ball, were several persona, and the door was shut. When he announced our names, @ clerk rapped softly, and the door wae opened a fraction of an inch, just enough so that we could perceive Mr, Hamilton stretched full lengtb on o bed, writhing as if in grea. pain. The man who had opened the door was precisely what one woul! have taken him for-a society phyelcina. Tt waa Dr. McMillan, dootor to the ricb—eleok, quick, efficient, man of the world, not without reputation In bis profession. He could not have arrived more than five minutes before ourselves, for he was atill making his examina- ton of the patient when we entored. We quickly explained how we had beeg summoned, and then stood eél- lently, near the door, watching the doctor conclude bis examination. At last Dr. McMillan looked up, faced us gravely, and, without « m ments hesitation, said: “It ts an tack of acute indigestion—ptomains Polsoning—a bad case, with oonvul- sions and delirium, His nervous ay! tem seems to have been greatly af- fected. I think he has been suffertag from nausea, and | know be bas a bad fever. I shouldn't advise trou- bling him now, gentlemen. At any rate, I doubt if he could talk very rationally, But I trust be will be all right soon, It usually takes from four to twenty houra in @ bad case, and after that he will need a long period of rest. With your permission, gentiomen, we will postpone mattors until then There was no gainsaying Dr Millan, especially as a trained nurse trom hia private hospital q opened the door and entered as he was bowing us ont, and ho turdpd from un to tho new a val to give Sf TH'® 1S THE SAME Priced MATERIAL You USuAuy Buy (MRS JOHN ; WE CAN AFFORD “THE BEST SEATS Now, JOHN ITS FUNNY , BuT WE DONT SAVE AS MUCH directions tn an undertone for the care of the patient. ‘The s¢rious illness of Mr. Hamilton came with a shock. We had, it ls true, had ample preparation; yet there is always something particulars ly appadling about such a disabling Jiness, and it was the more so ip this case since Hamilton was one of the marked men in the country's financ 1 wondered what must have been going through the mind of the doctor us he bent over his patient, sw moned from his home tn Fifth Ave nue in the middie of the night—tne conflicting emotions of the profes. sional man getting at the truth of case, and of the man of the world, who realized that markets and stock exchanges rose and fell with the strength or feebieness of the form that lay before him on the bed in the lonely room, Hamilton was, indeed, v Ut, and since he was in good ds there was nothing for us to do but to go downstairs into the office of the hotel and await & velopments. “What do you think of 1?" 1 asked Kennedy at first opportunity which we had “Think of \t?” he repeated sent tlously, “I think {t comes dange ously close to a tragedy,” ‘We were standing in a coraer of the lobby of the Chansons Arms when @ taxicab drove up and a man handed . His back was turned but 1 coulé not help feel- ore was aomething indefin- tng that ably familiar about his manuer. he turned and faced us, his e: rest. ed momentarily on us, then he looked ain, and bowed. It was Smith. “the entrance was narrow, and we Stood aside to let him pass, T! re very pretty—almost, one might say, too pretty, In fact, | seemed to recognize the taller and more etriking of the two, though I could not for the moment tell where I had seen her face. She was certainly some stage celebrity who was well known, I felt sure, and had her superior beauty not eclipsed that of her companion, the second girl would have attracted al- most the same amount of attention anywhere. As Smith passed, with bie arm laden with wr appeared sur- rised to see us, Stopped a moment, 1 extended a hand Ip passing. “Mr. Hamilton le very ti) a maine poisoning, whispered = ody to Smith, loudly enough for the dies w hear, ith's (ace clouded. The ladies, with & scream, fed upstairs in the levator. Ll?” he repeated hoarsely. “When did it happen? Where ts ha? Did he summon yout” With what seemed to me brutal directness, Kennedy repeated what had happened. As Smith also disappeared | up- stairs to aeek Doctor McMillan, Ken- nedy turned to the night clerk, who had now gone back to his duties, after the tirst excitement of the dis- covery, aud, pulling out his clgar case, bade us smoke up. “Who were the ladies who just came in?’ be asked casually, appearing more in- terested In (he cigar band than in “The tall brunette was Norma Hunter, and the blonde was Viola Clifford, of the Coloratura Stock tompany, that plays at the Long. oro=1 guess you've heard of them.” ‘Ob, yes. L didn’t know Mr. Smith knew them so weil, though, Was Mr, Hamilton acquainted with them ather,” drawled the clerk, with a knowing look. —— I By Maurice Ketter . MONEY AS WE DID BEFORE HAS HAD HIS SALARY [CHAD MY SALARY RAISED SHOW NE . Me Ton FUCH BETTER — Hag yee anp WAS ' ALA RAIS ie el —_—- OF SALAR: lige - UNDERSTAND IT) COHN . ‘mi eaid Kennedy. “Those are pretty good cigars, aren't they? I Miss Hunter and Miss Clit- ford live together?” “Yes--one of the best sultes in the hotel; on the tenth floor,” & jecd?" remarked ody, be- stowing his tention pm on the electric clock over the desk and com- paring his own timepiece with it. Hamilton, it occurred to ao been discovered on the ¢ighth Moor. “I suppose Miss Hunter and Mise oo NR ne NENT nnn WEEK'S SAM : EJ. MATH | i By ! Cc OMPLETE NOVEL Fate Plays the Winning Hand in a Tangled Romance | of the Lawrence When Burglar Suspect Woos Imperious Beauty ~Sootety Debutante’s Hol- day Leada Her Into Strange Adventures With “One Cylinder Sam.” BPGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD ma th Norma Muster? Weil, q 1 it, 1 euppose, ort & great in yver Win I have soon t aed wa it fora long Umenend, to be joertectly freak, that te the main rea. . why baw iio afraid my sfalr with Mies Clifford has gone ' ar, but ‘ 1 eaet way of keep * ite We very fash aw OY women con wind him around foxer, Api (hate @ dangerous it , youll admit. Ni down to brase tacks, Tow howe letters rat place. ut by all eens we must Keep this Prosent scandal from the newspapers and from coming to the eare of bie family, Of that later.” “What astute move le thie™ 1 kasped to Kennedy, ag Smith die- appeared upstairs ageia. Kennedy sald nothing, 1 wan paorbed in thinking over the peculiar turn of eventa when | millar voloe call my name. Gacore. Bon oyee of the hotel had takea upon aseif to Inform the papers So you beat us t confidentially. "Wh Which one of the Silney tatereated In I mate some Kind of reply whieh seemed ty tfritate the Recon! man. He lapsed into a @ullen silence, ae tt Thad got ab across and then re. [fused to own up to tt, Another and roporter dtopped in, inelud- of our own Sta ro men, until all eager Here waa the making of @ ndal tine 1 sball never forget the calm and easy manner with which Smith han- |died the situation when Kennedy told him something must be done about It, “Now, boys,” be sald, with the alr of an old hand at the game, “ ! LT want to saya ry euede ta and then will iseue Hamilton was holding a conference on a purely us. iness matter with a Western tnsur- ance man, and, of course, I cannot tell you about that. You must real- jxe that this news will have to be handied in a very delicate manner, or you fellowa may be responsible for 8 break in the market to-morrow, I may say that the jliness of Mr. Ham- |ilton, no matter how sertous or pro- longed, will make absolutely no aif. ference in the policy or conduct of the Hamilton interests, Thi ap all been provided for, every contingency. As a matter of fact, Mr, Hamilton could retire to-night, the com- panies would go on tn exactly the fname way. Now, do your best not to make a finance’ Here ta the atatemant Tam prepared to tsmue: Sitner Hamittion wae taken very til bad sum hd tech fodigestion. Uy, “and wo f orney, ar Clifford have many adinirers?” be 1 "uncer con, wiped. x tarts No, 1 repited the clerk, “That | Pe #. an int is, if you mean visitors, Outside of ; pa jamiltos to Mr. Hamitton and Mr, Smith, 1 can Lispaidi dean Lardly recall one by name.” “Well!” remarked Keunedy non- chalantly. “Look hem,” sald the clerk, leaning forward, “l know what you are try- ing to do. You are purmping me for ad you're worth, L dont ind it 4 bit, In fact, Min anxious to tel because | kuow you think the are mixed up i some way with th ilness of Mr. Hamilton, Now, here what happened, as pearly as T clan recall it: “They went out early to the theatro where they play, | saw them go, for, although | was not yet on duty, t was back of the desk. Weill, about helf past ton @ man called and asked for Miss Hunter, 1 said she wasa't in, and he hung around @ bit, th went in, and sat in the parlor, whic was empty, A few minutes later Mr Hamilton came in, and, knew As him, he rode unstatra in the elevator, and, L suppose, got out at the Lontl floor, I had forgotten all about the man in the parior—in t, 1 coulda’, describe him to you even, excopt that he was not a young man, and not over-well dressed, But about twenty minutes or so after Mr. Hamilton came in the man walked out, aaying he couldn't wait any longer, out would call some other time, No, he didn t leave any name “iow some on the eighth floor tele- phoned down to the police that there was an intoxicated man in the hall and wouldn't teome up and put him out. } went up, and there was Mr, Hainilion, bal! unconscious, very tl and groaning. He asked for a Mr Kennedy, but couldn't give the address, ‘80 wo looked it up in the directory, and as he said something that sounded like ‘the whiversity, and you were the only professor on the list, I sent his car for you and / called Dr, McMillan, Mr, Hamilton's rector, as the chauffeur told me. ow, that’s ail t know about It. What the man in the parlor was doing n't say, He might have walked I suppose; the elevator boy not take him up, % girls Were rather later than usu coming back (rom the theatre, and well, | guess you know more ab the rest of it than Ido, f don't ¢ ertain| what you do about the Business, but it isn't fair to either of them to con ceal the fact that they couldn't pos nidly have known anything about tt until they came tn.” Just then Smith appeared smaly in the lobby, It meemed to me that everybody was waxing confidential suddenly, for he came over drew us into @ davenport back of some paling. “T think T ought to say a few words ou about this affair,” he be; ont want you to get any ¢ sions. [ suppose you k that Mr, Hamilton was 4 witower with a daughter and @ niece of whom Ne thought « great deal? [saw you talking to the night eterk, and | guess he bas told you Maullion was int. to up long after that when | ‘ow, boys, | know some of you wiil try to make a yellow story out of this; but these are the facts, Thank gentlemen, That ts all [have to prevent. [ shall be at my morrow at Good night.” turned loo howeveg. the re- «Were Not Ko easily got rid of, particularly the Record man, who Went to Work interviewing the Chan. sone Arnis employees with redoubled Vigor because be thought the Star bad stolen a march on him. To our own man, [ gave an account which con- tained details no other paper had, yet was sufficiently tnnocuous to cccord with Smith's state Things seemed to be ma as well as caught the i in a sitp which makes ually admit that there was no auch Western insurance man in the house. What shall we do? T @rnod to Crate with a question- ine fhok. “Deny tt!" he erted, hurry- Upstairs to see Smith agatn, The net result was that a post- script was added to the first state- ment by Smith, which Kennedy read to the reporters ont at first who the Wi portera at Last i, kuees ths s 0 tt for to-niaht." Before T could say anything, he hut read my thoughts, “I do not be- live a word of It But it ty better to husb It than to garble it at pre Now, | think we had better turn in and be ready to go to work the morning to find out how letters got out of the safe and what really happened to them after. ward.” CHAPTER V, The S ientific Murderer. MAGINE our surprise the next morning, on arriving at the Chansone Arms to inquire how Mr. Hamilton had passed the night, at soe- ing one of Coe black wagons of an ndertakem—op, rather, a “funeral di- rector’ standing before the door. It looked ominous, and Craig hur- ried tn, In the lobby we met Smith, Harding and Latham, all looking Very grave ‘Mr, Hamilton died a little after clock,” said Sinkth huskily, as we approached. “By the way, gentle- he added, turning from us, and addressing Harding and Latham, “Mr, Kennedy and Mr, Jameson were engaged by Mv Hamilton, not only ta met “ of Mr. Hamilto eanevtion with (be appraisoment the Hamfiton jewels, but la other litte sonfidential ‘hich will be carried on in apite 1 trust bie death. (hem completed bis work of embalming, and the three confidential men of Mr, Hamilton left ebortly to take charge of various dutics which they agreed must be attended to immedi. ately, before Wall Street was fairly for awake to what bad bappened. “Craig,” I sald, as we stood for a moment alone in the lobby, “I can't aay that Iam taclined to accept Dov- tor MeMillan’s theory of ptomalve peisouing without some confirmation, are you? There are just enough un- up that might be offensive to the Ham- tom family Doctor McMullan may bave covered up crime, too, What do you think?” “It le all very pussiing,” be an- ewered cautiously nd I hargly think I have a it even to breatae anything of my suspicion until | have made most ri testa. Come, jet let us go upstaire and eee if we can talk to the undertaker. acemas to be nothing to prevent it, aay- how.” he Rave been “De you think he could poisoned? | whispered, thinking of & case some ‘he ehloroformed Kennedy, shook bis head doubtful- ly. “Medical authorities differ,” he sald, “ae to whether an anaesthetic ry de given, te R sleeper without wi We shall bea." ao Me Those who had been left in ‘a body included the nurse whom Doctor MeMillan had summoned, and as she recognised us Craig soon fell into @ conversation with the undertaker and his assistan’ 1 was staried to learn that there were evident marks of violence on the head of Mr. Hamilton, The un- dertaker, with the characteristic ekiil of his craft, had sewed them in such a way that they were completely hidden, except tq one who, ike Kennedy, might be looking wn pragtiond eyeefor something of the jt ‘Wet, at the worst, the cute were not such as might ip proved fatal. They were mere lacer. ations of the scalp, occasioned by some Dlunt object, and might very Possibly have been received when Mr. Hamilton fell, overcome with pain, in the hall. It was possible that they might even have stunned hin, for © fee Moments, and si there must ve mn & pretty free flow of blood, but they could net mt teas the cause of hie death, and the uurse asserted positively that the blood over them had been’ clotted when she ar- rived end hence must have been so while we stood for the moment at the door whi! 5 was Nnishing Bis diagnosis, These marks were interesting, bul they did not attract Kennedy's at tention long. Tt was a little incision in the back of the neck, at about the sixth or seventh cervical vertebra, which caused @ momentary exctama tien from Nim. At once it Sashes over me that perhaps Hamilton's neck had been broken, ev if wound dad not bean sufficient to kil Vim outrieh ke thin incision with a embalining tnetra m asked Cralg in @ low tone ef the undertaker “Tm quite sure not.” he repliet positively. “haven't fnished yet, bu J can show you just what has beer done so far. The fact T hadn't noticed that mark. [don't know tha * more than #@ aerate anyhow.” "What sort of embalining did. you dy-cavity or arteria asked Ken nedy keenly, The undertaker’s ton changed Immediately, as) it always does when an expert Mods that be ts talking to some one who ma’ he knows, know more of ¢ thay himself, vity,”" he replied laconically, tn- ing where he had m he drew off a | al flubd from the netehborhoed of the te cision in the back of the neck, and also some blood from the body at various other points, Then he took a sample of the embalming fluid that was being used. Keeping them cares fully separated, he labelled them h * he vromarked, as we room, With its awful ed Defore us on the ansons Aras tyxtead. To the wal obemiatry (To Be Continued)