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With his heart choking hi which he had told hiht for that faith, even as his eyes looked again upon the ghastly torture that was in Kedsty's face

He was beco calmer He touched the dead edy must have occurred an hour before He examined more closely the abrasion on Kedsty's forehead It was not a deep wound, and the blow that had made it must have stunned the Inspector of Police for only a short ti had happened In spite of his almost superhuman effort to keep the picture away fro to the table, the inspiration of the scissors, the clipping of the long tress of hair, the choking to death of Kedsty as he regained consciousness Over and over again he whispered to himself the iruity of it Only a brain goneKedsty And Marette was notferret his own eyes swept quickly about the roo curtain cords On the walls, hung there as trophies, were a number of weapons On one end of Kedsty's desk, used as a paperweight, was a stone tomahawk Still nearer to the dead man's hands, unhidden by papers, was a boot-lace Under his liht hand was the automatic With these possible instruments of death close at hand, ready to be snatched up without trouble or waste of time, why had the murderer used a tress of woman's hair?

The boot-lace drew Kent's eyes It was i and quarter-inch-wide buckskin He began seeking for its mate, and found it on the floor where Marette Radisson had been standing And again the unanswerable question pounded in Kent's brain--why had Kedsty's murderer used a tress of hair instead of a buckskin lace or one of the curtain cords hanging conspicuously at the s?

He went to each of these s and found them locked Then, a last time, he bent over Kedsty He knew that in the finalagony His twisted face left the story And the Inspector of Police was a powerful led, still partly dazed by the blow But it had taken strength to overcome him even then, to hold his head back, to choke life out of hinificance of what he saw began to grow upon his in his soul a slow and th of her own hands and body Marette Radisson had killed Kedsty A greater strength than hers had held hith than hers had choked life from the Inspector of Police!