"Warner Pearcy?" asked Craig. "Was he here last night?"

"Nearly every night," replied Josephson, now glib enough as his
first excitement subsided and his command of English returned. "He
was a neighbor of Mr. Minturn's, I hear. Oh, what luck!" growled
Josephson as the name recalled him to his present troubles.

"Well," remarked Kennedy with an attempt at reassurance as if to
gain the masseur's confidence, "I know as well as you that it is
often amazing what a tremendous shock a man may receive and yet
not be killed, and no less amazing how small a shock may kill. It
all depends on circumstances."

Josephson shot a covert look at Kennedy. "Yes," he reiterated,
"but I cannot see how it COULD be. If the lights had become short-
circuited with the bath, that might have thrown a current into the
bath. But they were not. I know it."

"Still," pursued Kennedy, watching him keenly, "it is not all a
question of current. To kill, the shock must pass through a vital
organ--the brain, the heart, the upper spinal cord. So, a small
shock may kill and a large one may not. If it passes in one foot
and out by the other, the current isn't likely to be as dangerous
as if it passes in by a hand or foot and then out by a foot or
hand. In one case it passes through no vital organ; in the other
it is very likely to do so. You see, the current can flow through
the body only when it has a place of entrance and a place of exit.
In all cases of accident from electric light wires, the victim is
touching some conductor--damp earth, salty earth, water, something