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VIII
THE MUMMY CASE

The horrible thought occurred to me that perhaps he was not alone.
I had seen Spencer's infatuation with his attractive librarian.
The janitor of the studio-building was positive that a woman
answering her description had been a visitor at the studio. Would
she be used to get at the millionaire and his treasures? Was she
herself part of the plot to victimise, perhaps kill, him? The
woman had been much of an enigma to me at first. She was more so
now. It was barely possible that she, too, was an absintheur, who
had shaken off the curse for a time only to relapse into it again.
If there were any thoughts like these passing through Kennedy's
mind he did not show it, at least not in the shape of hesitating
in the course he had evidently mapped out to follow. He said
little, but hurried off from the studio in a cab up-town again to
the laboratory. A few minutes later we were speeding down to the
museum.
There was not much time for Craig to work if he hoped to be ready
for anything that might happen that night.


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