doubt that the dead physician-dentist had killed himself after
he had tried to take the life of the young woman with whom he had
lived and of the youth who was his successful rival.

"'Besides that,' Dr. Schwartz said, 'my report to the police will
include a statement from the young woman to me that she always had
understood that Dr. Arenas had killed some one in Havana, Cuba, before
he came to New York.

"The autopsy left no doubt that Dr. Arenas was a case of status
lymphaticus (thymus-centered personality). I made a most complete
report because of the scientific value of the autopsy.

"'This confirmed my first deductions after seeing the body on Saturday
night in the doctor's furnished room with alcove bedroom adjoining.
You will remember that as soon as I had seen him I revealed that he
was wearing corsets.

"'These cases of status lymphaticus are intensely interesting. In them
the blood vessels are very small, and the lymphatic clement is greatly
in excess. They die suddenly, from ruptures of blood vessels. Many
of them are degenerate. Most of them are criminals. All of them are
liable to commit crimes of passion. Among them are found a large
percentage of drug addicts.

"'Miss Jackson, in the hospital, confirmed my scientific theory that
the dead man was not normal. She was perfectly frank in her statement.
She said she had left her husband, Elmer Schultz, an automobile
salesman in Toledo, several months ago and had come to New York. She
said she had lived with the doctor for some time.

"'About ten days ago she left him to live with Marti, a healthy,
normal lad. Before she went from the doctor's room she destroyed those
colored collars that were found beside the body. She cut them with
scissors. But that was after, so she states, the doctor had destroyed
stockings of hers by cutting them.

"'She told me in the hospital today, and with every appearance of
truth, that she had met Arenas in the subway at the station on
Seventy-second Street and Broadway on Friday night and that she had
asked him when she could come and get her clothes. He said, according
to her story:

"'Come to the house tomorrow afternoon--but come with Marti.'

"'She said that she and Marti went there according to this invitation:
that first the doctor showed her the cut collars and told her that she
would get her clothes back in perfect condition, and that the next
thing she knew she had been shot. She couldn't remember much after
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