He was bitten by some one in a struggle. It was his blood
on the floor of the mausoleum. Whose were the teeth?"
Kennedy fingered the now set impressions, then resumed: "Before I
answer that question, what else does the spectroscope show? I
found some spots near the coffin, which has been broken open by a
heavy object. It had slipped and had injured the body of Montague
Phelps. From the injury some drops had oozed. My spectroscope
tells me that that, too, is blood. The blood and other muscular
and nervous fluids of the body had remained in an aqueous
condition instead of becoming pectous. That is a remarkable
circumstance."
It flashed over me what Kennedy had been driving at in his inquiry
regarding embalming. If the poisons of the embalming fluid had not
been injected, he had now clear proof regarding anything his
spectroscope discovered.
"I had expected to find a poison, perhaps an alkaloid," he
continued slowly, as he outlined his discoveries by the use of one
of the most fascinating branches of modern science, spectroscopy.
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