New Nick Carter Weekly #24 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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ay) right, aan I’m going | in there Without going into the scientific details, and I don’t want to be disturbed.’’ what Trim discovered was this: That After Trim had entered the chamber;the blood on the carpet did not come = closed and locked the door; then he from the same person as that upon the tu tumed his attention to the bureau. key. On it was the decanter of wine andthe) They differed very largely, and when Diotes glass just as he had seen them the he had proven this fact he turned his at- nig before. tention to the liquid in the broken wine- He took the broken glass to the win- | olass. dow and held it up to the light, taking He had already reasoned that the man ‘Care not to spill any of the contents. who had attempted to murder Miss De , _ He saw at once what he had not | Leon, being greatly excited and unnerved % oticed the night before, that the « color. by the deed, had rushed at once to tne ‘Of the liquid in the glass was different decanter ino rder to get a bracer. f tom the color of the wine. That in his excitemént he had not i pativing satisfied himself on this point been able to hold the glass steadily, and he put the glass carefully down upon the that it had broken against his teeth. ss hes got down upon his hands and He had further reasoned that the crim- knee: and felt all over the carpet in that jnal had cut his lips then ip sa the sharp Vicinity. He presently picked up two edges of the glass. fragments of glass that fitted into the ‘Phis theory was justified in a short . break of the wineglass and nearly filled ‘time by discovering with his microscope 2 a and chemicals that the liquid in the glass — There’ sa little of it missing yet,’’ he} was wine mixed with a few drops of ‘thought, ‘‘but it doesn’t matter, this is | blood. f oe = _ He further found that the blood in the Se =e 2 im the broken pieces beside the wine was exactly the same as that found Wi ss upon the bureau and_ then upon the key, Tense is attention to the place on nthe When he had come to this conclusion ‘pet w nad stained by blood | | He again consuited his watch; it was a vase examined 1is first with the micro- "His eat was s working rapidly, and he O i then appl d nia, chemicals to/ had become fully convinced that he knew Jong. Who the would-be murderer was and just ‘of age 2, ae See pee orandum how it came about that the crime was of. this observations upon a piece of note ‘comunitted. He was more eketatn than ever iat . seemed to = satisfied Campo was the criminal, but it yet re- es — ‘i 7; ng , ; — Peaergh et mained to prove that to the satipiactsop Minto n — 4 iT > O Te 1é OO eC a 1s_ that m ry , <<! a SS nea als tense clock: | of others, and the first step in that proot 3 Fs | Bigs a , a _ _ would be to make it certain that Rie Yee "Time eno A yet, he muttered while De con Was innocent. <i he Fee ee A Next . e nek from tg ace kethioak the The | blood upon the key saad in the f+ pees sant he had picked up on the a showed § sig A : ap ecu ise r cor ~ a Sea ir whe n he first entered the TOO! the | is very.) nus ee ae | | . 4 P ‘ i ‘ ‘, . 4 be —_ ¢ , ie — > lid ‘ ' — I i F ie y | A ; ' 7 ny 7 ? _ « a ’ s a * . : | - a ‘ ms : \ - - P y r ft ¥ Tah Lae —_ >.’