They were very busy at headquarters, but, having once had that
assignment for the Star, I had no trouble in getting in.
Inspector Barney O'Connor of the Central Office carefully shifted
a cigar from corner to corner of his mouth as I poured forth my
suggestion to him.
"Well, Jameson," he said at length, "do you think this professor
fellow is the goods?"
I didn't mince matters in my opinion of Kennedy. I told him of
the Price case and showed him a copy of the telegram. That
settled it.
"Can you bring him down here to-night?" he asked quickly.
I reached for the telephone, found Craig in his laboratory
finally, and in less than an hour he was in the office.
"This is a most bating case, Professor Kennedy, this case of Kerr
Parker," said the inspector, launching at once into his subject.
"Here is a broker heavily interested in Mexican rubber. It looks
like a good thing--plantations right in the same territory as
those of the Rubber Trust. Now in addition to that he is
branching out into coastwise steamship lines; another man
associated with him is heavily engaged in a railway scheme from
the United States down into Mexico. Altogether the steamships and
railroads are tapping rubber, oil, copper, and I don't know what
other regions. Here in New York they have been pyramiding stocks,
borrowing money from two trust companies which they control.
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