Kennedy rose and bowed. For the present he had come to the
conclusion that if she would not let us help her openly the only
thing to do was to help her blindly.
Half an hour later we were at Norton's apartment, not far from the
University campus. He listened intently as Kennedy told such parts
of what we had done as he chose. At the mention of the arrow
poison, he seemed startled beyond measure.
"You are sure of it?" he asked anxiously.
"Positive, now," reiterated Kennedy.
Norton's face was drawn in deep lines. "If some one has the
secret," he cried hastily, "who knows when and on whom next he may
employ it?"
Coming from him so soon after the same idea had been hinted at by
the coroner, I could not but be impressed by it.
"The very novelty of the thing is our best protection," asserted
Kennedy confidently. "Once having discovered it, if Walter gives
the thing its proper value in the Star, I think the criminal will
be unlikely to try it again. If you had had as much experience in
crime as I have had, you would see that it is not necessarily the
unusual that is baffling. That may be the surest way to trace it.
Often it is because a thing is so natural that it may be
attributed to any person among several, equally well.
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