But if pasteurization is made compulsory, he continued, fresh milk will disappear from the English market, Fortunately the country is now in the happy position of being able to get, if it decides to do so, milk free from bacteria, without spoiling it by pasteurization, This is due to the discovery of a germicide by a medical scientist who, Percy Peck managed to conceal the shock which this message gave him, and to keep his counsel until he could consult with Dr. Perry Schuritz, the family's medical advisor, and IOr A. W. Wishart, its spiritual advisor. In the meantime he found pretexts for delaying the body's departure for Detroit.
Mysterious "K. Adam"
To. go to the local authorities with nothing more than that telegram would presumably create a scandal It seemed wiser that the physician and the clergyman should go at once to New York and institute a secret investigation as to who this "K. Adams" might be, and what basis, if any, his or her suspicions had.
Meanwhile Percy Peck directed that his father's body be removed not io the crematory in Detroit but to the vault in Grand Rapids' Oak Hill Cemetery.
"And have you located this 'K. Adams'?" asked Assistant District Attorney Mancuso, when he had li ed, in Room 616 of the Manhattan Hotel, to the story of the men from Michigan.
"No. The telegram was sent the office in the Grand Ce Station, but the clerk who received it remembers nothing of the sender."
"Dr. Schuritz," continued Mancuso, "did you have an opportunity to examine Mr. Peck's body yourself?"
"I did make a brief preliminary examination, replied the physician. "after receipt of the warning telegram. Moreover, 1 took certain specimens and submitted them to Dean Victor C. Vaughan of the Medical School of the University of Where to Stay on Leave
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