He has stolen the blood of another!
"He stole it in a desperate attempt to stay an incurable disease.
This man had used an arsenic compound called atoxyl, till his
blood was filled with it and its effects on the trypanosomes nil.
There was but one wild experiment more to try--the stolen blood of
another."
Craig paused to let the horror of the crime sink into our minds.
"Some one in the party which went to look over the concession in
the Congo contracted the sleeping sickness from the bites of those
blood-sucking flies. That person has now reached the stage of
insanity, and his blood is full of the germs and overloaded with
atoxyl.
"Everything had been tried and had failed. He was doomed. He saw
his fortune menaced by the discovery of the way to make synthetic
rubber. Life and money were at stake. One night, nerved up by a
fit of insane fury, with a power far beyond what one would expect
in his ordinary weakened condition, he saw a light in Cushing's
laboratory. He stole in stealthily. He seized the inventor with
his momentarily superhuman strength and choked him.
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