Kennedy did not even attempt to
study them. All about were high explosives, chemicals, dynamite.
There was gunpowder of all varieties, antimony, blasting-powder,
mercury cyanide, chloral hydrate, chlorate of potash, samples of
various kinds of shot, some of the outlawed soft-nosed dumdum
bullets, cartridges, shells, pieces of metal purposely left with
jagged edges, platinum, aluminum, iron, steel--a conglomerate mass
of stuff that would have gladdened an anarchist.
Kennedy was examining a little quartz-lined electric furnace,
which was evidently used for heating soldering irons and other
tools. Everything had been done, it seemed, to prevent explosions.
There were no open lights and practically no chance for heat to be
communicated far among the explosives. Indeed, everything had been
arranged to protect the operator himself in his diabolical work.
Kennedy had switched on the electric furnace, and from the various
pieces of metal on the table selected several. These he was
placing together in a peculiar manner, and to them he attached
some copper wire which lay in a corner in a roll.
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