Then, too, I made them smoke cigarettes
without the dope that is being fed them. Lockwood's case, for some
reason, hasn't gone far. But did you notice how the treatment
contracted the pupils of Whitney's eyes almost back to normal
again?"
I had and said so, adding, "But what was your idea?"
"I think I've got at the case from a brand-new angle," he replied.
"Unless I am greatly mistaken, when the person who is doing the
doping sees that Whitney is getting better--why, I think you all
noticed it, Inez and Lockwood as well as you--it will mean another
attempt to substitute more cigarettes doped with that drug. I
think it's by substitution that it's being done. We'll see."
At the laboratory, Kennedy called Norton and described briefly
what had happened, especially to Whitney.
"Now is your chance, Norton," he added, "to do some real good
work. I want some one to watch the Senora, see if she, too, notes
the difference in him. Understand?"
"Perfectly," returned Norton. "That is something I think I can do."
XIX
THE BURGLAR POWDER
It was not until after dinner that we heard again from Norton. He
had evidently spent the time faithfully hanging about the Prince
Edward Albert, but Whitney had not come in, although the Senora
and Alfonso were about.
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