It
was apparent that Cushing had taken the step of his own accord and
had said nothing to her about it.
"What does anything amount to?" she said tremulously at last. "The
dream is dead without him in it."
"Come," urged Kennedy gently. "This is enough for to-day."
An hour later we were speeding back to New York. Kennedy had no
apparatus to work with out at Goodyear and could not improvise it.
Winslow agreed to keep us in touch with any new developments
during the few hours that Craig felt it was necessary to leave the
scene of action.
Back again in New York, Craig took a cab directly for his
laboratory, leaving me marooned with instructions not to bother
him for several hours. I employed the time in a little sleuthing
on my own account, endeavouring to look up the records of those
involved in the case. I did not discover much, except an interview
that had been given at the time of the return of his expedition by
Borland to the Star, in which he gave a graphic description of the
dangers from disease that they had encountered.
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