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"Walter," he remarked meditatively, "have you ever considered the possibilities of blackmail if the right sort of evidence were obtained under this new 'white-slavery act'? Scandals that some of the fast set may be inclined to wink at, that at worst used to end in Reno, become felonies with federal prison sentences looming up in the background. Think it over."
But I have made all the tests for curare and strychnin without results." At the mere suggestion, a procession of hypodermic-needle and white-slavery stories flashed before me. "But," objected Kennedy, "clearly this was not a case of kidnaping. It is a case of murder. Have you tested for the ordinary poisons?" Doctor Leslie shook his head.
There was a law in New York against the violation of the seventh commandment, and the penitentiary was the punishment. The law had failed to catch its first victim, but it had been used in Massachusetts with success. The threat against Dyckman would surely work. Then there was the recent Mann Law aimed at white-slavery but a more effective weapon for blackmailers.
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