Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
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"But how do you think dreams arise in the first place?" I asked, more sympathetically. "Surely, if they have a meaning that can be discovered by a scientist like yourself, they...
15. Part 15Evidently, Kennedy was content to let the seed which he had planted during this visit germinate. Or was he reluctant to allow McCabe over the dictagraph hear more that might be...
4. Part 4What did it mean? I knew she was not telling the truth. Kennedy knew it. Did she know that he knew it? If she did, it had no outward effect on her.
9. Part 9"A drug," replied Kennedy. "One effect it has is to contract the pupil of the eye. Both Leslie and I have discovered considerable traces of it in Wilford's stomach. In such quan...
7. Part 7"No," I confessed. "But I can quite appreciate that an encounter between Honora and Vina would be likely to be spirited--and add to our knowledge of the case. What was it?"
13. Part 13"I suppose that's right. If you went out you'd be followed. There's no place that's safe. Probably somebody's getting an earful of this," came back the other voice. "Still, I've...
16. Part 16"As I faced him," he went on, "I told him that I would not kill him outright. I would give him an equal chance. I am a sportsman. I told him what the thing was, of the duels I h...
6. Part 6"Perhaps. It makes no difference. Often much of our own Puritanism in literature covers a multitude of facts, as Puritanism does in life. Here's a case in point. Facts may be ug...
10. Part 10Kennedy nodded sententiously. "But why did he have Vina shadowed here to the tea-room--that is, if that is the case? Had he some inkling that Vina was merely using him? And what...
2. Part 2"Once I was in Africa--yes. But I contracted a fever there. It has left me unable to stand the fatigue I used to stand. However, I'm all right--otherwise--and good for a great m...
8. Part 8Yet to me it was evident that it most certainly had been Vina whom she had in mind. The association test of the waking state quite accorded with the results of the dream study w...
14. Part 14"It occurred to me," went on Kennedy, "that since you were working for Mrs. Wilford you might be able to help me. There were several things you told me the other day that I've b...
11. Part 11"Yes, I knew her. Vina _was_ interested--of course. But, then, who is not, just now? A few years ago only a few had read Freud. Even after he was translated, still there were on...
5. Part 5I considered a moment. Was this all confirmation of the rumored relations between Vina Lathrop and Vail Wilford, as Doyle had dug the story up? I recalled the notations that Doc...
12. Part 12"Now," he remarked, as he finished and saw my questioning look, "let me get my delicate split-second watch from this cabinet, and I'm ready for a new and final test of Honora Wi...
1. Part 1Italics have been transcribed using _underscores_, bold with =equal signs=, and small capitals as ALL CAPITALS. Inconsistencies in punctuation have been silently corrected. A li...
17. Part 17What was back of it all? I had heard of the so-called resolution dreams. I had heard of dreams that kill, of unconscious murder, of terrible acts of the somnambulist, of tempora...