About the throat were light discolourations that
showed that the young inventor had been choked by a man with a
powerful grasp, although the fact that the marks had escaped
observation led quite obviously to the conclusion that he had not
met his death in that way, and that the marks probably played only
a minor part in the tragedy.
Kennedy passed over the doubtful evidence of strangulation for the
more profitable examination of the little gash in the wrist.
"The radial artery has been cut," he mused.
A low exclamation from him brought us all bending over him as he
stooped and examined the cold form. He was holding in the palm of
his hand a little piece of something that shone like silver. It
was in the form of a minute hollow cylinder with two grooves on
it, a cylinder so tiny that it would scarcely have slipped over
the point of a pencil.
"Where did you find it?" I asked eagerly.
He pointed to the wound. "Sticking in the severed end of a piece
of vein," he replied, half to himself, "cuffed over the end of the
radial artery which had been severed, and done so neatly as to be
practically hidden.
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