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Entering Flint's room, she had raised the alarm and had acted her part so well that Eva thought that she had discovered Flint's absence at the precise moment at which Zita had cried out and she had come running in answer to her call. Locke gave Hadwell a brief outline of what had just occurred at Brent Rock. "Professor," he pleaded, "for Heaven's sake don't fail me.
Hadwell was delighted at the chance to examine the strange scrapings of wax which Locke had dug out of the sockets of the candlestick, the more so as they must contain some mysterious poison. First he studied them under a powerful lens, then by chemical reactions, until he made visible some peculiar crystals. Locke himself was amazed as his friend worked.
Try as you never tried before to find the antidote for this strange combination of poisons. Telephone me when you have it." Locke seized his hat, and Hadwell redoubled his efforts to fathom the toxic secret. At Brent Rock, in the mean time, everything was in confusion, Eva was almost distracted, and, to add to her discomfort, Paul took occasion to call.
Then she turned and ran back to Brent Rock. Locke, in the mean time, had arrived at the laboratory of his old friend Hadwell, the chemist, where he was warmly welcomed. It was the usual dusty workshop of one devoted to one idea science with no touches of comfort. Hadwell fairly lived amid retorts, Bunsen burners, and reagents.
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