Naturally, then,
Bradley Cushing was not precisely popular with a certain set in
Goodyear. As for myself, I am frank to admit that I might have
shared the opinion of many others regarding him, for I have a
small investment in this Congo enterprise myself. But the fact is
that Cushing, when he came to our town fresh from his college
fellowship in industrial chemistry, met my daughter."
Without taking his eyes off Kennedy, he reached over and patted
the gloved hand that clutched the arm of the chair alongside his
own. "They were engaged and often they used to talk over what they
would do when Bradley's invention of a new way to polymerise
isoprene, as the process is called, had solved the rubber question
and had made him rich. I firmly believe that their dreams were not
day dreams, either. The thing was done. I have seen his products
and I know something about rubber. There were no impurities in his
rubber."
Mr. Winslow paused. Ruth was sobbing quietly.
"This morning," he resumed hastily, "Bradley Cushing was found
dead in his laboratory under the most peculiar circumstances.
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