White spots on the photographic print come
out as black spots here on the sensitised paper over which this
stylus is passing, and vice versa. In that way you can see the
positive print growing here before your very eyes as the picture
is transmitted from the negative which Clark has prepared and is
sending from Chicago."
As we bent over eagerly we could indeed now see what the thing was
doing. It was reproducing faithfully in New York what could be
seen by the mortal eye only in Chicago.
"What is it?" asked Williams, still half incredulous in spite of
the testimony of his eyes.
"It is a photograph which I think may aid us in deciding whether it
is Dawson or Brown who is responsible for the forgeries," answered
Kennedy, "and it may help us to penetrate the man's disguise yet,
before he escapes to South America or wherever he plans to go."
"You'll have to hurry," interposed Carroll, nervously looking at
his watch. "She sails in an hour and a half and it is a long ride
over to the pier even with a fast car."
"The print is almost ready," repeated Kennedy calmly. "By the
way, it is a photograph which was taken at Atlantic City a few days
ago for a booklet which the Lorraine was getting out. The
By-Products forger happened to get in it and he bribed the
photographer to give him the plate and take another picture for
the booklet which would leave him out.
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