Potter School - Shield Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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THE POTTER SHIELD B tl l e told me this afternoon that the formula was completed and he had y .ic way, 1 . . I f d ' 't t .t 'mdv for Commercial appllcgmong but I suppose he s alrea y given 1 0 ygu, 1 I ' d th lace was in darkness. Then a .. Il dasnapan CP Q .. J ust as I ieached the stePS, 5E the Steps on the Opposite Slde of the buddmg, - S- . ed and a man ran , , . . dom elemm h ther side just in time to see someone , , L .f , I otaroundtot eo . . I enum In the blick earl, etginto a roadster and drive off, speeding as if de Palma P 1 tl t 03 g . ' ' 1 aiecieliiim elrwerit in and turned on the lights and-well, sir, nothing s been touched. Stanley nodded his head. n . 4 I haven't the formula, he said quletly- The foreman stiffened and let out an oath. l You see, that's what they came for-the formula. But who could it be? None of our rivals are dirty enough for a job like that, andlyet-Oh, h-ll With Mal, he returned to where Dave lay and examined the face and head closely. Finally he straightened up and strode to the end of the room where, out of a case, he took a bottle of aluminum powder and a spatula. He carefully sifted a little of the powder on the space just between the temple and the ear, then blew it off. It stuck in streaks but with no definite pattern. Stanley shook his head. f'Too clever, he said. Even erased his finger prints. See that slight bluish spot there, just a little to one side of the temple? The scoundrel, whoever he was, probably waited and watched Dave for some time, hoping to see if he could find where Dave kept the formula. Then, when he was discovered, he jumped on him and pressed these two arteries, one on each side of the head. It shuts off the blood supply to the brain, causing instant unconsciousness and then death. Have you notified the coroner? No-o-o, slowly responded Mal. I thought I had better wait for you. Well, send for him now and ask him to try to keep the affair as quiet as he can. I am going to town right away. Stanley knew it was no use to hunt for the formula, because when Dave wanted to hide anything it took more than brains to find it. And besides, he had absolutely nothing to work on. Two days later, in the morning, the telephone again brought startling news. Someone had visited the laboratory during the previous night and had apparently started to wreck the sink. One of the night-shift men in passing had entered, engaged in a fight with the intruder, and got knocked Out, th tstanley 'Ullgought for a .moment and then smiled grimly. He rang up a firm a were ma ers of scientific instruments, placed an Order and then drove down to the 1ab0f3t01'Y, Where he spent the rest of the afternoon. That night, under cover of darkness, and with Mal's help he strung a bunch of Wires '50 31 Shafflk SQIIIG eight hundred feet distant, burying them for the most part about three inehes in the gF011I1d. The next day, on a table in the shack, he put 13 ' - . PP e T range mlxtufe Of TCMYS, batteries and electric bulbs. Two detectives work- mg 2L.'06I'11ately, were hired to watch the thing constantly from early evening to morning. Th k t , , out of existeneeivor Wen on as usual end Stanley Fofdme Seemed to have dI'0PPed After two weeks of watchful and tedi - , d t t. . n ous waiting, at about three in the morn- bllenkein e -ec We Sew one ef the little heme glow UP and in a minute th ere all 3 lfrcgularly. A little later th ' - ey W GY steadied and blinked rhythmically and Forty A