Further
proof must be sought Other sciences must come to our aid."
I was sitting next to Mrs. Godwin. As Kennedy's words rang out,
her hand, trembling with emotion, pressed my arm. I turned quickly
to see if she needed assistance. Her face was radiant. All the
fees for big cases in the world could never have compensated
Kennedy for the mute, unrestrained gratitude which the little
woman shot at him.
Kennedy saw it, and in the quick shifting of his eyes to my face,
I read that he relied on me to take care of Mrs. Godwin while he
plunged again into the clearing up of the mystery.
"I have here the will--the second one," he snapped out, turning
and facing the others in the room.
Craig turned a switch in an apparatus which his students had
brought from New York. From a tube on the table came a peculiar
bluish light.
"This," he explained, "is a source of ultraviolet rays. They are
not the bluish light which you see, but rays contained in it which
you can not see.
"Ultraviolet rays have recently been found very valuable in the
examination of questioned documents.
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