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Show THE OGDEN 8 - A 0 mm. iwJ ll k M M xs ss f m m Km A SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25. 1921. X7 0 1 STANDARD-EXAMINE- R xx i 17 X) AT) Pa ))X 11 UA X TAr? ? A A7 A A A . An Envelope Suddenly Sailed the Air from the Window and Dropped on the in Through f u A,:J Ar 'I Floor Just Beside Us. Claire Jumped Up with a Little Scream sis I '''""" I ir,f! yprSJ3c! - w W,r" X AAV'--- W-r-r- X w'ow Jh v l., - tf ' ' . ,?rv ,kaaX ' A -- ? v ;7rr$ -- , - - . ' ' to-- xzsr-zzsx?z?:A4sK v.,-- . fj . j . - t- ti, .I -rT XL Ji.-il.-'.- U ' ir Picked Up the Envelope. I .lrJ,.;,v.u7v;vt.- i i - i- WXX' t;u'1f.s v- - v - ! x 'X - v - 1 OXa . . ' - . -- a-- V" ,', -- X English-basement- From the decanter . he poured a bit ,of the liquor and plugged the test tube," restoring it ,fo his pocket.- i : L - " in the paper. I stood beside him, eagerly watching,, as finally he looked up from the "Some sort of powder," he remarked, ''colorless or perhaps whitish, shining flat rhombic prisms." He held the dust and powder to his nose, but it evidently, had no odor. Under a hand lens with a pair of tweezers he picked out what I assumed to be some grains and placed them on his. tongue. Hi3 face Indicated that the taste was a bit acrid, but I ' could not tell whether it gave him a clue or not. He turned .from the microscope, taking the test tube from the case eye-piec- explained Kato. Kennedy turned toward a beautiful mahogany and glass cellaret in an alcove of the den "Which decanter?" he demanded. Kato pointed it out. As he did so Kennedy "bent forward and lifted it, hut his eyes were not on the decanter. With two sheets' of paper, which he picked up from a writing desk, he scraped up the slight dust which had collected on the shelf. Then he fqlded up the "paper ino which he scraped the dust' and drew from his pocket a small case In which he always carried some miniature test tubes. x - - With scarcely a word of explanation further, Kennedy, excused himself to Dr. Gilbert and we were on our way tip to the laboratory. It was a: quick ride and silent. Kennedy had but one Idea, and that was first of all to discover the man- ner in which Granby had met his sudden fate. In the laboratory he set to work , at once, examining first under a - microscope the few grains of dust ; : t " ' A.' ; Kennedy? quired as he stepped in gh "Yes," answered, Craig. "I'm from tho Star," he went on. My name is Speed. I was out on o an 'assignment and about to in my story when the city editor told me to go over to Gran-by'They said that you had been there, and I though I'd better come to see you to get the Inside story. Kennedy smiled. "Trying to get a beat on Jameson?" ho laughed, ' v he the door. ,'X tele-phon- "A drug, well known in Turkestan, where it is sometimes called e. . In his pocket. Quickly he poured the contents into a larger test tube, and I saw that he was making a hasty qualitative analysis I knew that it would be some time before Kennedy discovered anything. T think, Craig," I suggested, "Miss Claremont . should . know about this, and perhaps I had bet- ter tell her." Craig nodded assent and delighted by the mission, which at least served as an outlet for my own excitement, I hurried out. Clare Claremont, however, was not at home, nor could I find her. I called up the Star, but Steed was out on an assignment and could not be located. Itayenal, too, must have left his den directly after we did, for his servant could tell me nothing. Unable to carry out my mission, I was finally forced to go back to the laboratory, trusting that Kennedy had made some progress. As I entered, Kennedy was appar' ently finishing up his work. I could see by his manner that he "Professor - , ; v 1 - x-'-- v - X - - X - s t that he had taken a drink." Without waiting to hear more Kennedy hurried down the hall to the first floor, Lover the A moment later, as we - followed, he entered the library. "I took away the glass and put the decanter back lii the cellaret," V -- . had discovered something. I told him hastily of my failure to find Miss Claremont, and even before .1 had a chance to ask a question, he beckoned me over to his table where, before him Ina rack, stood a test tube about half full of some liquid. "I didn't have very many grains of the stuff," he remarked, "but from even the few that I had I have discovered that it Is not soluble In water, although very soluble in alcohol. That's as far as I went with the few grains, 'for. I soon found that I rust have a great deal of the stuff in the solution of the liquor." He picked up another test tube in which I knew that he had separated some of the poison, whatever it was, from the liquor. Then he took from one of the shelves above his laboratory table a bottle labelled "Alcoholic Potassium lly- droxlde." He poured some of It Into the test tube. The colorless liquid In the tube slowly turned a brilliant red. As I watched the transformation, Kennedy reached for a bottle of sul- phurlc acid. The liquid had scarcely turned red when he poured a few drops of the acid Into It, picked up the tube with the holder, and held it in the flame of a burner until the liquid botle'd. This time It changed to a delicate shade of 'violet. "That is the test for santonin. "Santonin?" I repeated., "What ! that?',' (C) 1921. Iatern&Uoo&l re&tar s. Levant Worm-seed- . It comes from the dried flower tops of a plant known as Artemisia eantonlca. I suppose I should have recognlred its effect, but one does not expect to see It here in New York. "Its most noticeable effect is what Is does to vision. Everything that Kato and Dr. Gilbert told us of Granby was quite typical. First the victim sees everything about him yellow and If enough of the drug has been taken, this yellow nodding toward me. "Oh. hello!" greeted Speed, turning toward me. "I didn't recognize you at first didn't think about IL" "That's all right," I replied. "I'd much rather the story were yours anyhowv Besides, from what know of it already I think it win Hake more than both of us to handle Jt anyhow." Spod turned from me Inquiringly at Kennedy, as though to ask Jast how much he did know. "Miss Claremont called oa us this afternoon." explained Craig. "Oh. she did? That's fine. I am delighted. In fact. I haTe been telling her that she should do something of the sort-- Ita venal is all right, but this thing Is getting too. deep for us." Without wasting any more words Kennedy related briefly what had happened at the interview, the rtrange cote from Granby and the fatx,l sequeL Speed grew more and more excited as Kennedy finished. "My God!" be exclaimed, "this X vision gradually changes to green, insensibility, convulsions and death follow. "Placed In food or drink Its slight taste can bo easily masked although sometimes even a small amount has been known to produce unexpectedly bad results. I looked at Kennedy in amaze- ment and horror. "The gTeen death!" I exclaimed. , He nodded. "We know what it was, but we are Just as far as ever from knowing whence It came." i CHAPTER III. The Double Cross. was a knock at the THERE door and Kennedy opened it, admitting a young man whom I recognized at once as Jack Speed. Speed was a rather handsome young fellow, a splendid figure of a man, athletic and with a free and careless manner, which stamped Mm as one whom you could easily find very likeable. 1 'ix I.;s..t ? A Continued from Preceding Page. closed. He seemed to be debating TVhat to do first. He quickly replaced the sheet and strode out into the hall again where I stood with Dr. Gilbert and Kato. "What was he doing last in the librar?' demanded Kennedy of Kato "1 don't know; sir. I saw him as he came in. He seemed very nervous. When I saw him again in the library, on the 'table was a glass and a decanter, i I should say, sir, ,', v , , . - . - X. . ;aAX i - V? " : - " - X-'- T-- thing has ramifications I never dreamed of. I bad no idea that. poor Ripley was Involved. What a desperate rang this must be." "Involved In what? asked Kennedy, watching the young man's face? "keenly. Speed shook his head doubtfully, but said nothing. "What do you make of this Black Menace, Jack?" I Inquired, for as one of those ffKow Speed whom you Irresistibly call by hi first name almost on acquaintance. Speed's face cltarly indicated not only great perplexity, but something as near fear as his nature was capable, "I don't know," he confessed. There Is some blackmailing scheme here. I can't make it out first Dale, then Granby why, I could name a dozen people In high society, who I think are victims. Yet . all are as dumb as oysters" "And you have you received to r "Indeed I have. threats He set his Jaws I am "But lightly. going through with this things and so Is Clare." "What clues have you had so farr "Scarcely airy thing, except that everywhere we turn we find tome evidence of the power of thla band, that is. If It is a band. I never dreamed that anyone could cover up evidence so completely." Kennedy was gazing thoughtfully at the apparatus before him oa the tablel "There are still a couple of hours before our appointment to meet Miss Claremont," he decided. "To tell you the truth, 1 am rather sorry that I let her go away alone."-H- e Jumped up with sudden energy. "I must find her, and la the meantime the best thing that you and Walter can do, will be to return to Granbys and make a search of his library before it Is too late. You can do it. Speed, because yoa wcro intimate with him." Kato might have besiutcd to admit even Kennedy again, but he could hardly refuse to allow Speed, who had been a frequent and welcome visitor at Granby's. to enter. We mounted to the library, and Speed and I Immediately set to work. I noticed, however, that Kato hung about In the hall, sometimes even venturing Into the far end of the library, always masking his Interest under his Japanese politeness. Finally I whlypcred to Speed about It "If you doa't mind. Kato," he di rected, "we'd prefer to be alone. Kato towed, and his Impassive face betrayed nothing. We dldcot see him. howeyer, again. Searching through the drawers and pigeonholes, we turned over an immense amount of papers ana memoranda. Speed, even opened the safe', but there did not seem to be much in It except a few dollars la cah, the Granby plate, some old account books and papers that had no bearing whatever upon our search. "There's cot even a will!" tx claimed Speed. "Walt a moment, I'm going to call up Ripley's lawyer, Graham," II reached for the telephone, and a moment later had Graham oa the wire. The conversation was bri?f but intimate, and Speed hunt; tip," turning again to me. "Yes, there is a will," he said, his face very puzxled. "Graham didn't draw It up, never, taw It, He aays Granby to'.d him of it, thouch. I wonder where it could be? It's certainly not here." Turning oter the stuff la the safe, I had com across several Urge bundles of cancelled checks, and had laid them out upoa the library table. Speed came over and began looking at them over my shoulder. They were numbered beginning 1.000 and ran up to several thousands. Quickly Sped turned them over. There did not seem to be anything more remarkable about them than there would have been about the checks cf any lUe spender until we got down to the more recent one, which had drawn within the past year. Suddenly Sped stopped. "Do you realize. I've been adding up some of those large fellows tha! were drawn to cash. They ccse ftM ready to over a hundred thousand dollar, and they seen to be getting larger and more freTJcnL I wonder what that means? No cae drawa checks for large sums so frequently to cah. Why didst he pay these things by check?" (To Be Continued.) ? be-c- n Bcrrte. Inc. j ...'!'' . i ' - ' X' A A XA . A . - , , , ..,..,- j - ; f , |
