"Not yet," the masseur replied. "The coroner has ordered it kept
here under guard until he makes up his mind what disposition to
have made of it."

We were next ushered into a little room on the same floor, at the
door of which was posted an official from the coroner.

"First of all," remarked Craig, as he drew back the sheet and
began, a minute examination of the earthly remains of the great
lawyer, "there are to be considered the safeguards of the human
body against the passage through it of a fatal electric current--
the high electric resistance of the body itself. It is
particularly high when the current must pass through joints such
as wrists, knees, elbows, and quite high when the bones of the
head are concerned. Still, there might have been an incautious
application of the current to the head, especially when the
subject is a person of advanced age or latent cerebral disease,
though I don't know that that fits Mr. Minturn. That's strange,"
he muttered, looking up, puzzled. "I can find no mark of a burn on
the body--absolutely no mark of anything."

"That's what I say," put in Josephson, much pleased by what
Kennedy said, for he had been waiting anxiously to see what Craig
discovered on his own examination. "It's impossible."

"It's all the more remarkable," went on Craig, half to himself and
ignoring Josephson, "because burns due to electric currents are
totally unlike those produced in other ways. They occur at the
point of contact, usually about the arms and hands, or the head.
Electricity is much to be feared when it involves the cranial