As there seemed
to be nothing that I could do at Lookout Hill, I accompanied him
on the long and tedious ride, which brought us back to the city in
the early hours of the morning.
We stopped just long enough to run up to the laboratory and to
secure a couple of little instruments which looked very much like
small incandescent lamps in a box. Then, by the earliest train
from New York, we returned to Lookout Hill, with only such sleep
as Kennedy had predicted, snatched in the day coaches of the
trains and during a brief wait in the station.
A half-hour's freshening up with a dip in the biting cold water of
the bay, breakfast with Captain Shirley and Miss Gladys, and a
return to the excitement of the case, had to serve in place of
rest. Burke disappeared, after a hasty conference with Kennedy,
presumably to watch Mrs. Brainard, the hotel, and the Stamford
cottage to see who went in and out.
"I've had the Z99 brought out of its shed," remarked the captain,
as we rose from the breakfast-table. "There was nothing wrong as
far as I could discover last night or by a more careful inspection
this morning.
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