The plate was sent to a
little office in Chicago, discovered by the post-office inspectors,
where the forged stock certificates were sold. I understood from
what Clark told me over the telephone before he started to transmit
the picture that the woman in it looked very much like Adel DeMott.
Let us see."=20
The machine had ceased to revolve. Craig stripped a still wet
photograph off the telelectrograph instrument and stood regarding
it with intense satisfaction. Outside, the car which had been
engaged to hurry us over to Brooklyn waited. "Morphine fiends,"
said Kennedy as he fanned the print to dry it, " are the most
unreliable sort of people. They cover their tracks with almost
diabolical cunning. In fact they seem to enjoy it. For instance,
the crimes committed by morphinists are usually against property
and character and based upon selfishness, not brutal crimes such
as alcohol and other drugs induce. Kleptomania, forgery, swindling,
are among the most common.
"Then, too, one of the most marked phases of morphinism is the
pleasure its victims take in concealing their motives and conduct.
They have a mania for leading a double life, and enjoy the
deception and mask which they draw about themselves. Persons under
the influence of the drug have less power to resist physical and
mental impressions and they easily succumb to temptations and
suggestions from others.
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