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He shifted his position slowly, and went on, as if defending the course of action he had taken in the case. "Then, too, you know, there is an individual as well as family and sex susceptibility to lead. Women are especially liable to lead poisoning, but then perhaps in this case Mrs. Pearcy comes of a family that is very resistant. There are many factors.
"Why do you think it affects each so differently?" asked the druggist. Dr. Gunther settled himself easily back in a chair to speak as one having authority. "Well," he began slowly, "Miss Pearcy, of course, hasn't been living there much until lately.
Pearcy," he added, as the young man turned and hurried out to his car again. "That was that young Pearcy, you know. Nice boy but living the life too fast. What's Kennedy doing anything?" I did not like the jaunty bravado of the masseur which now seemed to be returning, since nothing definite had taken shape. I determined that he should not pump me, as he evidently was trying to do.
In fact I felt that Miss Pearcy was visibly relieved by the departure of her stepmother. She seemed anxious to ask us something and now took the first opportunity. "Tell me," she said eagerly, "how did Mr. Minturn die? What do they really think of it in New York?" "They think it is poisoning," replied Craig, noting the look on her face.
My kinograph shows the footsteps, shows as plainly as if I had been present, the exact person who tried to obliterate the evidence," An ashen pallor seemed to spread over the face of Miss Pearcy, as Kennedy shot out the words. "That person," he emphasized, "had planned to put out of the way one who had brought disgrace on the Pearcy family. It was an act of private justice." Mrs.
As soon as the lights began to glow in the little stores on the main street, we sallied forth, taking the direction of the Pearcy and Minturn houses. On the way he dropped into the hardware store and purchased a light spade and one of the small pocket electric flashlights, about which he wrapped a piece of cardboard in such a way as to make a most effective dark lantern.
Warner Pearcy, I had heard, had blazed a vermilion trail along the Great White Way, but his sister was of the opposite temperament, interested in social work, and had attracted much attention by organizing a settlement in the slums of Stratfield for the uplift of the workers in the Pearcy and other mills.
By strategy I managed to persuade Pearcy to come, and as for Josephson, he could not very well escape, though I saw that as long as nothing more had happened, he was more interested in "fixing" the police so that he could resume business than anything else. As we entered the laboratory that night, Kennedy, who had left his party at a downtown hotel to freshen up, met us each at the door.
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