"
"Some seem to think it was suicide," prompted Kennedy.
"People who have brilliant prospects and are engaged to pretty
girls don't usually die of their own accord," rasped Harris.
"So you think he really did have the secret of artificial rubber?"
asked Craig.
"Not artificial rubber. Synthetic rubber. It was the real thing, I
believe."
"Did Mr. Borland and his new chemist Lathrop believe it, too?"
"I can't say. But I should surely advise you to see them." The
doctor's face was twitching nervously.
"Where is Borland's office?" repeated Kennedy, again taking from
his pocket the field glass and adjusting it carefully by the
window.
"Over there," directed Harris, indicating the corner of the works
to which we had already been directed.
Kennedy had stepped closer to the window before him and I stood
beside him looking out also,
"The cut was a very peculiar one," remarked Kennedy, still
adjusting the glasses. "An artery and a vein had been placed
together so that the endothelium, or inner lining of each, was in
contact with the other, giving a continuous serous surface.
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