inoculated against typhoid three times during the month before
the disease was devilishly and surreptitiously introduced into
Bisbee Hall, in order to protect himself or herself should it
become necessary for that person to visit Bisbee Hall. That
person, I believe, is the one who suffered from an aneurism of
the heart, the writer, or rather the forger, of the two documents
I have shown, by one of which he or she was to profit greatly by
the death of Mr. Bisbee and the founding of an alleged school in
a distant part of the country--a subterfuge, if you recall, used
in at least one famous case for which the convicted perpetrator
is now under a life sentence in Sing Sing.

"I will ask Dr. Leslie to take this stethoscope and examine the
hearts of everyone in the room and tell me whether there is
anyone here suffering from an aneurism."

The calcium light ceased to sputter. One person after another was
examined by the health commissioner. Was it merely my
imagination, or did I really hear a heart beating with wild leaps
as if it would burst the bonds of its prison and make its escape
if possible? Perhaps it was only the engine of the commissioner's
machine out on the campus driveway. I don't know. At any rate, he
went silently from one to the other, betraying not even by his
actions what he discovered with the stethoscope. The suspense was
terrible. I felt Miss Bisbee's hand involuntarily grasp my arm
convulsively. Without disturbing the silence, I reached a glass
of water standing near me on Craig's lecture-table and handed it
to her.

The commissioner was bending over the lawyer, trying to adjust