Impatiently we awaited the arrival of the men from Kennedy's
laboratory, while we made Mrs. Godwin as comfortable as possible
in a room at the hotel. In one of the parlours Kennedy was
improvising a laboratory as best he could. Meanwhile, Kahn had
arrived, and together we were seeking those whose connection with,
or interest in, the case made necessary their presence.
It was well along toward midnight before the hasty conference had
been gathered; besides Mrs. Godwin, Salo Kahn, and ourselves, the
three Elmores, Kilgore, and Hollins.
Strange though it was, the room seemed to me almost to have
assumed the familiar look of the laboratory in New York. There was
the same clutter of tubes and jars on the tables, but above all
that same feeling of suspense in the air which I had come to
associate with the clearing up of a case. There was something else
in the air, too. It was a peculiar mousey smell, disagreeable, and
one which made it a relief to have Kennedy begin in a low voice to
tell why he had called us together so hastily.
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