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Show I L The Silent I Bullet " H; By ARTHUR B. REEVE. -rrX has always seemed strange to me that no one ' has ever endowed a professorship in criminal sci-H: sci-H: I ence in aiij- of our largo universities." Craig Kennedy laid down his evening paper, Hi' jn college we had roomed together, had shared every- thing, even poverty, and. now that Craig was a pro-Hi pro-Hi I'ffsor of chemistry and 1 was on tho staff of tbo Si; Star, wo had eontiunod the arrangement. I " Wbv should there ho a chair in criminal science!" H,; 1 remarked argnmcntativoly. "I've dono my lurn at H polico headquarters reporting, and T can tell you, '1 ( raii:, it'.- no place for a college professor. Crime is ; jut "crime. And na for dealing with it, tho good de- . active is born and bred to it. College professors for J tin? sociology of Iho Hung, yos; for the detection of ' il. give mo a Byrnes." j "On the- contrary," replied Kennedy, "there is a H: dihliuct place for science in the detection of crime . ' l oUog'vs have gone a long way from the old ideal ot H pure culture. They have got down to solving tho ' hard facts of life pretty nearly all. except one. They still treat crime in tho old way, study its statistics ' and pore over its causes aud the theories of how it j cuu bo prevented. But as for running the criminal himself down, scientiticslly, relentlessly bah! wo hrnon'l made an inch of progress since tho hammor j and tongs method of your Byrnes. I am serious. I -am going to apply science to the detection of crime, tho wine sort of methods by which you traeo out tho Hj ' prcsruoe of a chemical, or run an unknown uerm to 1 earth. And before J. have gone far, I am going to Hj culiLt Waller Jameson, as an aide." ! ' "'Detectives in fiction nearly always make a great mistake,"' said Kennedy one evening after our tirst conversation on crime and seicuce. "They almost' Ju-variably Ju-variably antagonize the regular detcctivo force. Now iu real 'life that's impossible it's fatal." "Yes." T agreed, looking up from reading an ac-count ac-count of the failure of a large Wall st.reo.t brokerage house, Kerr. Parker & Co., and the peculiar suicide H of Kerr Parker, "Yes, it's impossible." "My idea of the thing. Jameson," continued Ken-nedy, Ken-nedy, "is that tho professor of criminal scieuco ought to work with, not against, the regular detectives. For iustauco, I believe that organization plus science would go fur toward clearing up that Wall street case I see you arc reading " " I expressed somo doubt as to whether tho regular police were enlightened enough to take that view I 1 j "Somo of tlicin arc," ho roplied. "Ycstorday tbo j chief of polico in a western city scut a mau east to i see me about the Price murder you know tho case?"5 I Indeed I did. A 'wealthy banker of tho town had been murdered on the roa'd to tho golf club, no one knew why or by whom. "He sent me "a piece of a torn handkerchief with a J deep bloodstain on it," pursued Kennedy, "lie said it clearly didn't belong to the murdered mau, that it indicated that the murderer had himself been wouud-i wouud-i I'd in the tussle, but as yet it had proved utterly value- ; less as a clue. Would J sec what 1 could make I of it? , "After his man bad told mc the story 1 had a feel- nig that the murder was committed by either a Sicilian laborer on the links or a negro waiter at the club. ' Well, to make a short story shorter, 1 decided to test ' tho blood stain. i "Probtbly j'ou didn't know it, but the Carncgio , institution has just published a minute, careful, and , dry study of the blood of human beings and of ani-'j ani-'j inals. In fact, they have been able to reclassify the , whole animal kingdom on this basis, and have "made t somo most surprising additions to our knowledge of j evolution. Now 1 dou 't propose to bore you -with j the details of tho tests, but one of the things they I showed was that the blood of a certain brauch of tho human race gives a reaction much like the blood j of a certain group of monkeys, tho chimpanzees, while ' tho blood of another branch gives a reaction like I that of the gorilla. Of course there's lots more to it, but this is all that need concern us now, "I fried the tests. Tho blood on the handkerchief I conformed strictly to the Jailer test. Now tho gorilla Hj was, of course, out of tho question this was no Uue j Morgue murder. Therefore it was the negro waiter, j Here's a telegram f received at dinner: 'Congratula- MjM ions. Confronted Jackson your cvideuco as wired. W f'onfofsed.' " J That uiuht I sauntered down to the imposing new police building amid tlio squalor of Center street. In-H,. In-H,. specter Barnej' O'Connor carefully shifted a clear from corner to corner of his mouth as I poured forth my sugestiou to him j "Well. Jameson,'-' he said at length, "do you think this professor fellow is the goods? ' I didn't miiico malters in my opiniou of Kennedy. 1 I. told him of tho Price case and showed him a copy of tho telegram. That settled it, . "Can you briug him down here tonight?" he asked quickly. . H T reached for the telephone, found Craig in his lab- orator- finally, aud iu lets thau au hour he was in tho "This is a most baffling case, Professor Kcnuedy, H' this case of -Kerr Parker," said the inspector. "Hero is a broker heavily interested in Mexican rubber. It i looks like a good thing plantations right in tho same Hh territory as those of tho rubbcr trust. Now iu addi-tion addi-tion to that be is branching out into coastwise steam-. steam-. ihip lines; another man asspciated with him is heav-1 heav-1 ily eugaged iu a railway fichemo from tho United Stales down into Mexico. "Altogether the steamship and railroads aro tap-j tap-j ping rubber, oil, copper, and I don't know what other H' regions. Here in New York they have been p3'ramid- nig slocks, borrowing money froth two trust companion which thev control. It's a lovely scheme you've read j about it, I :uppose. Also you've read that it comes into competition with a certain group of capitalists Hil whom wo will call 'the System.' H,, "Well, this depression iu tho market comes along. Vt once rumors are spread about the weakness of tho trust companicn: runs start cu both of them, Tho &3'stem you know them make a great show. of sup-H.'j sup-H.'j porting the market. Yet the runs continue. God j l.uowa whether they will spread or tho trust com-H, com-H, panics staud up under it tomorrow after what bap-; bap-; jencd today. It was a good thing the market was : closed when it. happened. H-i "Kerr Pa-ker was surrounded by a group of people H ' who were in his schemes with him. They are holding Hi a council of war in tho directors' room. Suddenly j Parker rises, staggers toward tho window, falls, and 1 1 is dead before a doctor can get to him, I "Every e&arL is made to, keep the thine quiot. It ij given out that ho commited suicide. The papers don't ac6m to accept I he suicide theoi-y, however. Nei-p, Nei-p, thor do wc. The coroner, who is working with us, j r has kept his mouth shut so far. and will say nothing H'ii t;ll tho inquest. For, Professor Kennedy, my first rnan H I on tho spot found that Karr--Parker was mur-H.- dered. Vi "Now. here conies the amazing part of (ho story. B The doors to the offices on both pides were open at H ! 'ho time. There were Jots of people in each office. B 1 There was the usnnl click of typewriters, aud the buzz of the ticker, and the hum of conversation. We have H : any number of witnesses of the whole affair, hut as H j far as any of them knows no shot was fired, no smoke H j was spen. no noise was heard, nor was any wenpou B found. Yet here on my desk is a thirty-two caliber "They arc holding a council of war in the directors room. Suddenly -Parkor rises, staggers toward th9 window, falls, and. is dead hoforo a doctor can get to kim." bullet Tho coroner's physician orobod. it out of Parker's neck this afternoon and" turned it t over to us." Kennedy reached for tho bullet, and turned it thoughtfully in his fingers for a moment. Ono side of it had apparently struck a bono in the neck of tho murdered man, aud was flattened. Tho other sido was still perfectly smooth. With his inevitable magnifying glass ho scrutinized the bullot on every sido. "Extraordiny, most extraordinarv," ho said to himself. him-self. "Whcro did you say this bullet struck!" "In the fleshy part of the neck, quite a littlo back of and below his ear and iust abovo his collar. There wasn't much bleeding. I think it must have struck the base of the Drain." "It didn't strike his collar or hair 7" "No." "Inspector, I think wo shall bo able to put our hands on the murderer I thiuk wc can get a conviction, convic-tion, sir, on tho evidenco that I shall get from, this bullet In my laboratory." "That's prett' much like, a story book," drawled the inspector. "Perhaps," smiled Kenned', "But there -will still bo plenty of work for the polico to do, too. Now, inspector, can you sparo tho timo to go down to Parker's oflico and tako mo over tho ground?" Wc fouud tho oflico under guard of one of tho central ofiico men, while in tho outside" oflico Parker's confidential clerk and a few assistants were still at work in a subdued and awed manner. Somehow or othor I liked Johu Downej", tho clerk, from tho moment I was introduced to him. He seemed to mo to bo tho tvnie.il confidential clerk who would carrv a secret worth millions and keep it. "Mr. Downey," began Kennedy, "I understand you woro present when this sad event took place." "Yes, Hir, sitting right here at tho directors' tablo," he replied,' taking a chair, "like this." "Now cau you recollect iust how Mr. Parker acted when, ho was shot? Could 'ou or could you take his place and show us just how it happened?" "Yes, sir," said Downey. "Ho was sitting here at tho head of the table. Mr. Bruce, who is tho 'Co.' of tho firm, had been sitting hero at his right; I was at the left. Tho inspector has a list of all tho others prosout. Tho "door to tho right was open, and Mrs. Parker and some other ladies wero in the room " "Mrs. Parker?" broke in Kennedy. "Yes. Like a good many brokerage firms wo havo a ladies' room. Many ladies aro among our clients. At that timo I rocollect the door was open all tho doors woro open. It was not a secret meeting. "Mr. Bruco had just gouo into tho ladies' department, depart-ment, I think to ask some of them to stand by tho firm ho was an artist at smoothing ovor tho fears of customers, particularly women. Just before he went in I had seeu tho ladies go in a group toward the far end of the room to look down at the lino of depositors on tho street, which reached around tho corner from one of the trust companies, I thought. "I was making a note of an order to send into tho outsido ofiico there on the left, and had just pushed this button hero under the tablo to call a boy to carry it, Mr. Parker had just received a letter by special delivery, and seemed considerably puzzled over it. No, I don 't know what it was about. Of a sudden I saw him 6tart in his chair, rise up unsteadily, clap his hand on the back of his head, sta-gger across tho floor like this and fall here. "I msbed to pick him up. Everything was confusion. confu-sion. I recall somo ono behind, me saving, 'Here, boy, take all the30 papers off the table and carry them into my ofiico before they get lost in tho excitement,' I thirik it was Bruce 's voice. The next moment I heard some ono say. 'Stand back. Mrs. Parker has fainted.' But I didn't pay much attention, for I was calling to some ono not to got a doctor over the telephone, but to go down to the fifth floor whero ono has an office. "I made Mr. Parker as comfortable as T could-There could-There wasn't much I could do. He seemed to want to say something to me, but he couldn't talk. Ho was paralyzed, at least his threat was". But I did man-ago man-ago to make out finally what sounded to me like, 'Tell her I don't believo the scandal, I don't beliove it.' But before ho could say whom to tell ho had again become unconscious, and by the timo tho doctor arrived he was dead," "You didn't hear Ihc shot fired from any particular direction?" asked Kennedy. "No, sir." "Well, whore do you think it camo from?" "That'B what puzzles mo, t-ir. Tho only thing I can figure out is that it was fired from tho outsido office perhaps bv Eome customer who had lost money and sought rovenge. But no one out there heard it oither, any more than they did in the directors' room or tho ladies' department." "About that message," asked Kenned-. "Didn't you sen it after all was ovor?" "No, sir; iu fact T had forgotten about it till this moment when you asked mo to reconstruct the circumstances cir-cumstances exactly." " What did Mrs, Parker do when sho came lo?" "Oh, sho cried as I have never seen a woman cry before. Mr. Bruce and I saw her down in the elevator to her car. In fact, tho doctor, who had arrivod, said that tho sooner sho was taken homo the better sho would be." "Did she say anything that you remember?" Downey hesitated. "Out with it, Downey," said tho inspector. "What did she say as sho was going down in tho elevator?" "Nothing." "Tell us. Til arrest you if 3-011 don't." "Nothing about tho murder, on my honor," protested pro-tested Downey . Kennody leaned over suddenly. "Then it was about the note?" Downey was surprised, but not quickly enough. Still ho seemed to bo considering fcomothiug, and iu a moment mo-ment ho said: "I don't know what it was about, but'l feel it is-' is-' my duty, after all, to tell you. I heard her s.iy, 't wonder if ho know?' " "What happenod after you came back?" "Wo entered tho ladies' department. No ono was thero. A woman's automobile coat was thrown over a chair in a heap. Mr. Bruco picked it up. 'It's Mrs. Parker's,' he said. Ho wrapped it up hastily, aud rang for a messenger." Wo next went ovor the whole suite of offices. I noted how carefully-Kennedy looked into tho directors' room through tho open door from tho ladies' depart-incut, depart-incut, llo stood at such an angle that had he been tho assassin he could scarcely have been seen except by thoso sitting immediately next Mr. Parker at tho directors' tablo. The street windows wero directly in front of him, and back of him was tho chair on which the motor coat had been found. In Parker's own oflico wo spent some time, as well as in Bruco's. Kennedy mado a search for the note, but findiug nothing in either office, turned out tho contonlt; of Bruco's scrap-basket. There didn't seem to bo anything in it to interest, him, however, even after ho had pieced several torn bits of scraps .together .to-gether with much difficulty, and ho was about to turu the papers back again, wheu ho noticed something sticking to the sido of the basket. It looked like a nrass of wet. paper, and that was precisoly what it was. "That's queer, " said Kennedy, picking it loose Then ho wrapped it up carefully and put it in his pocket. "Inspector, can you lend me one of your men for a couplo of days?" ho asked, "I shall want to send him out of town tonight, and shall probably need his services when ho gets back." "Vory well. Biley will bo just tho fellow. We'll go back to headquarters, and I'll put him under your orders, ' ' It was not until lalo in tho following day that I saw Kennedy again. It had been a busy day ou the Star. Wo had fjono to work that morniug cxpectiut; to seo the very tinanoial heavens fall. Bud just about; livo minutes to ten, before the stock exchange opened, tho news camo in over tho wire from our financial man on Broad street: "The System has forced Janice Bruce, partner of Kerr Parker, tho dead banker, to sell his railroad, steamship and rubber holdings to it. On this condition it promises unlimited support to the market." "Porced!" muttered the managing editor, "Why, he's been working to bring that about for tho past .two weeks." "So you think this Parker case is a mess?" 1 asked. ' "T know it. That's a pretty swift bunch of females fe-males that huvo been speculating at Kerr Parkor & Cb.'s. I understand there's one Titian-haired young lady who is a sort of ringleader, though ?he' rarely goes personally to her brokers' oflices. Sho can make Bruce do pretty nearly, anything, they say, He's the latest conquest. Tho story goes that her husband is a hauger-nu of tho System, ana that she's beon working in their interest, too. That was why he was so complacent com-placent over tho whole affair. They put her up to capturing Bruce, and after sho had acquired an influence in-fluence over him they worked it so that sho mnde him make love lo Mrs. Parker. "It's a long story, but that isn't all of it. The point was, you bco, that by this devious route they hoped to worm out; of Mrs. Parker somo iusido information in-formation About Parker's rubber schemes, which ho hadn "t divulged even to his partners in business. It wm a deep Sid carefully planned plot and some 0 tho conspiarlors wero pretty deeply m tho mire, 1 S""0h, hero comes the rest of the news story over thfi wire By Jove, it is said on good authority tuai Bruce will bo taken'in a? one of the board of directors. What do you think of that?" ..in invo So that; was how tho wind lay-Bruce mnUnR love to Mrs. Parkor and sho presumably oaying lir husband b secrets. I thought I saw it v"'0. D? from somebody exposing tho "mo. Parker a in credulity, Bruce sitt ng by hi m and catching sight 0 1 tho note his hurry ng out into tho lajlica' dcpdit mrnt, and then tho shot. But who fired it? After all, I had only picked up another clue. vr T Kennedy was not at the apartment, at dinner so I sat dowu to fidget for a while. Pretty soon tho buzzer 011 tho door sounded, and I opened it to find a. messenger mes-senger bov with a largo browu paper parcel. 'Is Mr. Bruco horcl" ho asked. ;Why, no, ho doesn't" then I checked mysoU and added.: "You cau loavo the bundle. "Well, this is tho parcel ho telephoned for. 11 ib valot told mo to tell him that they had a hard time to find it, but ho gucssos it's all right. Tho charges aro forty ccnls. Sign here." , I signed the book, fooling hko a thief, and tho boy d0.Tustetiicn I hoard a key in tho lock, and Kennedy camo in. ' " Is your na.mo Bruce?" T asked. "Why?" ho replied eagerly. "Has anything come?" , 3. f . I pointed to tho package. Kennedy made a dive for it and unwrapped it. It was a woman's pongco au-tomobilo au-tomobilo coat. Ho held it up to tho light. The pocket on tho right band side waB scorched and burned, una a hole was tore clean through it. . "How did j'ou get it?" I exclaimed at last in sur-prisn. sur-prisn. . ., "That's whom organization comes in," said Kennedy. Ken-nedy. "Tho polico at my request went over overy messenger call from Parker's ofiico that afternoon, and traced every ono of them up. At last thoy found ono that led to Bruco's apartment. Nono of them led to Mr. Parker's home. . "I rcasoucd that this was tho ono that mvolvod the disappearance of tho nutomobilo coat. It was a chanco worth taking, 60 T got Downey to call up Bruco 8 Aalot. Tho valet of course recognized Downey's voico aud suspectod nothing. Downey assumed to know all about tho coat iu, the package received yesterdaj'. Ho asked to bavo it sent up hero. I see tho scheme worked. But if you could toll mo anything about that noto Parker received I'd thank you." I related what our managing editor had said that morning. "I had guessed something of that sort, Konnedv said. "This rcad-hairod young lady interests mo. I wonder who sho is. Ah. well, what do you say to a stroll dowu tho Whito Way before I go to my laboratory?" labo-ratory?" Wo had got no further than tho first theater whon Kennedy slapped me ou the back. "By Cjeorgo, Jameson, Jame-son, she's an actress, of course. Don't you remomber tho auburn-haired leading lady in the 'Follies' tho girl whp sings that song about 'Mary, Mary, quite contrary?' Her stage name, yon know, is Phoobe La Neige. Well, if it's sho who is concerned in this caso X don't think sho'll bo playing tonight. Lot's inquiro at tho bos office." She wasn't playing, but just what it had to do with anything in particular I couldn 't sec, and I suid as much. "Why, Waller, you'd never do as a detective. You lack intuition. Don't you know sho is tho wifo of Adolphus Hesse, the most invotqrato gambler in stocks in tho System? Why, I had only to put two and two together and tbo whole thing flashed on mo in an instant. Isn't it a' good hypothesis that sho is the red-haired woman iu tho case, tho tool of tho System Sys-tem in which her husband is so heavily involved?" Wlicu we reached the laboratory on our return, the inspector's man Itilcy was there. "I've got a list of purchasers of that kiud of revolver," re-volver," ho said. "Wo have been to every sporting goods and arms storo in tho city which bought them from tho factor, and I could lay my hands on pretty nearly every 0110 of thoso weapons in twenty-four hours provided, of course, they haven't been secreted or destroyed," "Protty nearly all isn't good enough," said Kennedy. Ken-nedy. "It will have to bo all. unless " "That name is in tho list," whispered Eiley hoarsolj'. "Oh, then it's all right;" answered Kennedy, brightening bright-ening up. "Eilcy, I will saj' that you're a wonder at using tho organization in ferreting out such things, There's just one more thing T want you to do. 1 want a sainplo of the noto paper in the private desks of every one of these people." Ho hauded tho policeman po-liceman a list of hia "suspects," as he called them. TCilcy studied it dubious!'. "That's a. hard one, Mr. Konuedy, sir. You seo, it means getting into so many different houses and apartments. Now you don't want to do it by means of a warrant, do yu- sir? Of course not. Well, then, how cun wo get in?" "You're a pretty good-looking chap yourself, Biley," Bi-ley," said Kennedy. "I should think you could jolly a housemaid, if necessary." "Oh, it's me that's the Iady-killor, sir," grinned Uiley. "Sure, I'll have somo of them for you in tho morning," "Briug mc whnt you got, tho first thing in tho morning, eveu if you've lauded ouly a few samples," said Kennedy, as Riley departed. "And now, Walter, you too must excuse mo tonight," to-night," said Craig. "Tvo got a lot to do, and shan't be up to our apartment till very late or early. If 7. get those papers from Biley in good time tomorrow I hhall invite you and soveral others to a grand demonstration demon-stration hero tomorrow night." Kennedy's laboratory was brightly lighted whon T arrivod early tho next evening. Ono bv one his "guests" dropped iu. It was evident that they had little liking for tho visit, but the coroner had sent out tho "iuvitations." and they had nothing to do but accept. Each one was polileiy welcomed by tho professor pro-fessor and ussigued a seat, much ns ho would havo done with a group of students. Tho inspector and the coroner sat back a little. Mrs. Parker. Mr. Downey, Dow-ney, Mr. Bruce, myself, and Miss La Ncigo sat in that order in tho very narrow and uncomfortable little lit-tle arm chairs used by the students during lecturos. At last Kennedy was ready to begin. Ho took his position bohind the long, flat-topped table which he used for his demonstrations before his classes. "T realize, ladies and gentlemen," ho began formally, for-mally, "that I am about to do a very unusual thing: but. as you all know, tho polico and tho coroner have been completely baffled by this terrible myslcrv and have requested mo to attempt to clear up at least certain cer-tain points in it. "In a crimo of this sort, two kinds of cvideuco need to bo secured. Circumstantial ovidencc must first' bo marshallod, and then a motive- must be found, I have been gathering facts. But to omit motives and rest contented with mere facts would bo inconclusive. It would never conyiuco anybody or convict anvbodv. Iu other words, circumstantial evidenco must first lead to a suspect, aud then' this suspect must pro'v'o equal to accounting for tho facts. It is my hope that, each of you may contnbuto somothing that will be of service in amviug at tho truth of this unfortunate incident. inci-dent. " The tension, was not relieved even when Kennedy stobpod speaking and began to fuss with a litlio upright up-right target which ho set up at one and of his table. I. at least, felt tho tension so greatly that it was only if tor he had started speaking again that I noticed that the target was composed of a thick layer of some putty-like material. Holdinc a thirty-two caliber pistol in bis right hand and ainiing it at the target, Kennodv picked up a Irirgo piece of coarse homespun from the" table and held it loose v over the muzzle of the gun. Then he fired. The bullet tore through tho cloth, sped throueh the air, and buried itself m the target. With a knife he pried it out. "I doubt if even the inspector himself could have told us that when an ordinary leaden bullet is shot through a woven fabric the weave of that fabric is in the majority of cases impressed on the bullet xomo. times clearly, sometimes faintly," ' Horo Kennedy tttok up a pieco of fine batiste and fired another bnllcfc through it. "Every leaden bullet, as I havo said, vhich has struck such a fabric bears an impression of the threads whioh is recognizable oven when the bullet has penetrated pene-trated deeply into the bod; It is only obliterated partially or entirely whon tho bullet has been flat tened by striking a bone or other hard u Imfflt then, as in this caso, if only a part J0iMft flattened the remainder may still w iyHF tho fabric. ao tb!tBfH( "A henvy warp, say of cotton verot here, homespun, will bo imprinted wpit r BH' but oven a fine batiste, containing one 1 WhVt- to tho inch, will show marks. Evln WK" t-suck t-suck as a coat, shirt, and undershirt m tiMt',L their marks, but that docs not cour -MHSP case. "cern "Nov I have hens a piece of p0nce. e,,, a woman's automobile coat. I uiscliaro ' t"W 3 a through it so. I compare tho biillQiTJMK!, others and with tho one probed trZ ihZV'&SA Parker. I find that the marks on that nWl correspond precisely with those on U vB t through tho pongco coat." lQe baMrtl 1 Startling as was this revelation, r..- , MrTir only an instant before tho next. ' jMEjW "Now I have another demonstration f'-Kfl noto liguros in this case. Mr. Parker W. ,7 flftiiit or perhaps ro-rcadmg it, at tho timo LTt(Mr havo not been ablo to obtain that nnt 1 TH.W1. in a form such as I could uso in discovcrhmiBftf its contents. PIB ') "But in a certain waste basket I f0nT1j Si 1! wet and pulp-liko paper. It had been erated, perhaps chewed; porhapB it 1 vVtli: soaked with water. There was a wajli running water in this room. The ink hrn Be courso was illegible. W,', "The thing was so unusual that I af flTl,1Bi!',l that this was the remains of tho noto i OtP Under ordinary circumstances it would hilK'0 ueless as a cluo to anything.- But today BtwM-',' 11 ready to let anything pass as valueless. It . "I found on microscopic examination tyWS an uncommon linen bond paper, and I kvMZLr largo number of microphotographs of th? llmo They nro all similar. I bavo hero also alKfK)t" drcd microphotographs of tho fibers in otWvB&r paper, many of them bonds. These I WsBftl latod from timo to time iu my study 0f thiin'i'' None of them, as you can see, shows flborj this one in question, bo wo may conclude tbrilKutle! uncommon quality. RTyii "Through an agent of tho police I hrs iE samples of tho noto paper of every ono fflj(C;- concerned, as far as I could see, with this ovEifoi aro the photographs of the fibers of theso TaSMITl papers, and among them all is just oub tliFBfc"" sponds to the fibers in tho wet maE3 of ntSKfrAi covorod in tho scrap basket. I think unnecessary to add that in the'prescut cigJK'i precisely who " 'Wfe ?c At this point tho tension was so neil yjfci5 snapped. Miss La Neige, who was sitting bBP had been leaning forward involuntarily, if the words wero wrung from, her alio flHj "Thoy put mo np to doing it; T didn't But tbo affair had gone too far. I conldn'uB1 lost before my very oyes. I didn't want tf; him. The quickest way out was to tell VuB-story VuB-story to Mr. Parker and stop it. It vras tleRjM! I could think of to stop this thing hetircta iBfJ ' man's wife and tho man 1 loved bettor thsjP. husband. God knows, Professor Kennedy, tiBp; "Calm yourself, madame," intormpteJ zflCyf soothingly. "Calm yourself. What's d"" The truth must come out. Bo calra." iKfeTl "Now," he continued, "wo have said ntrtUaHwR over of the most mysterious feature of UufSH firing of the shot. Tho murderer could hMtKtv) tho weapon into the pocket or tho folds of tiai here ho drew forth the automobile coat ujBiifc aloft, displayiujr the bullet hole "and IserBa will not say" which) could havo discharged tliPE unseen. "'cBLjft "By removing and sccrotiug the weapoa iftrP' one very important piece of evidence woaljSMy 1 pressed. This person could havo used snca lajHuu as T. havo here, mado with smokeless porrlK,,i'j coat would havo concealed the flash of tli tllKjjL effectively. Thero would havo beon no eolflBEL, neither this coat nor even a heavy blanket itcaBL deadened the report of tbo shot, "What are wo to think of tliat? OnlTOMMkaj There is an invention that makes it almost' Jfa to striko a man down with impunity ia brpffl light in any place whero thore is sufficient tWgj covor up a click, a slight 'Pouf!' and tho ?Ki m bullet in the air. S&.'a "I refer to this littlo device of a Hartford iwBbwg I placo it over the muzzle of tho thirty-tttfByt revolver 1 have so far been using so. KtVlu Jameson, if you will sit at that typewriter eTIP3f f and write anything so long as you keep clicking. The inspector will staU that kniialifrmtn ticker in the corner. t "01 "Now wo are ready. T cover the pistol jBP? I defy any one iu this room to. toll mo?Hr-,. menf. whon I discharged the pistol. I ""JjHJli auy of you, aud an 'outsider not in tho ttwBB." uovor havo thought that I was tho CDP"'"''!. certain extent I havo reproduced tho conjitlatni which this shooting occurred. hvKTii "At once on being sure of this Icatur?.cV2Ki 1 dispatched a man to Hartford to seo ttii Tho man obtained from him a complete Jut PjK dealors in Now York to whom such doviMJ JJW"ftc sold. Tho man also traced overy salo of trfwrni 0 Ho did not actually obtain tho weapon, wlSM.no working on schedule timo according to ''Jk!'-' is at this moment armed with a search an"JH ransacking every possiblo placo where t he YfM, pected of this crime could liave cnceaeiA"jf For, ono of the persons intimately conntwiKij 1 case purchased uot long aco it silencer imKJ caliber revolver, and I presume that "".IrErf 5 ricd tho gun aud the silencer at the timo onJpKi of Kerr Parker." . Kenned v concluded in triumph, his voics flipKU ; his eyes "flashing. Yet to all outward agpHgMB tt a heartbeat was quickened. Somo ono m '"Ml 7 had an amazing store of sol f possession., "I had anticipated some such anti-uviac coutinued after a moment "I. am?wJSlSL Ho touched a boll, and the door to imhM oponod. One of Kennedy's graauato ititwy i -"You havo the records, Whiting?" pto "Yes. Professor." .tL. . ,, iK,1 "I may say," said Kennedy, -'that at H chairs is wired under tho arm in sucn 8 !3Ki betray on an appropriate indicator m t" uK every sudden and unduo emotion.. Thouea lls concealed from the eye. even 01 .06leMm stands facinu you, such emotiou is n.i3Ei-nressed n.i3Ei-nressed bv physical pressure ou the ?.m! ?rtjEU H is a lest "that is used frequently flJKg to demonstrate various points of psj" 'aMTC: needn't raise vour anna from the cca '?' , : gentlemen. Tho tests aro nil over no. thoy show. Whiting?" , , , -', A Tho student read what ho had faWft next room. At tho production 01 the li$Mjg demonstration of tho markings of we jiK!S Parker had botravod great emotion. wfjMf TO done likewise, and nothing more than WU4TMM tion had been noted for the rest or us. Miss La Neige 's automatic record SriM out of tho sending of the noto to SYVSM1 especially unfavorable to her; TtTjWm'' most as much excitement; Mrs. 1 arK.r . ." Downev very little, It was all set fona drawn "by sclf-rocording pens on xfiP1" .d$mjtl Tbo student had merely noted whafc3Kg; lecture room as corresponding, to toe nfm "At tho mention of the noiseless nedy. bonding over the record. 1 Wr pHBL i of Miss La Neige, Mrs. Parker sta-lKM only so far iTOm normal as would db jMgh of thorn were witnessing a thing tor tno Wc only curiosity and no fenr. -Toe, cuye ,WD , Bruco shows great agitation and'7 njtalBv, I heard a metallic click at my ?&6J:nt. Hftl ; tily. It was Inspector Barnoy 0 wot a W rtenped out of the shadow with a P HOg cuffs. . . t( To7 "James Bruce, you arc under arrest There flashed on my mind, and I tw (JtMTMit of somo of tho others, a picturo ot anui wired chair. vtfiMii-' (Copyright, 1913, by a$c0,ure jM |