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Dr. Mohandas Mokurji, in a soft, reedy voice.
    “At any event, we surmise that death in each case was extremely swift, coming in something less than one minute. Unconsciousness would have come even more quickly. If the victims had had their throats slit with a sharp instrument such as a knife or straightedge razor, and if both the carotid arteries and jugular veins had been severed, the blood loss alone would have resulted in unconsciousness in from fifteen to thirty seconds. Those are approximate figures.
    “However, it is possible by the careful pinching of certain nerves in the neck, near the base of the skull, or by forcefully depressing the windpipe and at the same time those carotid arteries to render a victim unconscious in as little as five to seven seconds. It is our assumption that such was the case with both the Hanochek woman and the Hughes woman. As for Mrs. Reynolds, it is apparent she struggled with her assailant…before she was immobilized.
    “After the initial wounds were inflicted, the blood was drained very quickly and I would definitely say some kind of suction device was used. This would explain why no blood was found anywhere on the victims or in the area where they were discovered.”
    Then Mokurji dropped his little bomb.
    “In our examination of the Hanochek woman we came across something rather interesting. As you might surmise we were quite intrigued with the fact that the body had been almost entirely drained of blood. I say ‘almost entirely’ because, of course, there were still some bodily fluids, for example, in the stomach, kidneys, etc. However, there were also, in the minor blood vessels, tiny traces of blood. And almost microscopic traces of blood on the inner edges of the wounds. From these traces we were able to type the woman’s blood.
    “What is so very intriguing is that we found another substance mixed in with this blood. Something we found nowhere else in her body. It was… sputum.”
    Chief Butcher shifted his bulk uncomfortably and turned his florid face to the doctor.
    “Well, man. Don’t keep us waiting. What was this stuff?”
    “Saliva.”
”Spit?” asked the chief.
    “So it would seem,” said Dr. Mokurji.
    “You’re telling us the sonofabitch who killed her drooled all over her neck?”
    “No. I am merely…”
    “Well what then?”
    “If you’ll let me continue, please… What I am saying is that we found a minute quantity of saliva on the inside edges of the twin wounds in the woman’s neck. No more. No less. It is enough for us to say the wounds were made by two round, smooth-edged, pointed instruments approximately three-eighths of an inch in length but possibly as long as six-eighths of an inch in length, taking into consideration the ‘give’ of the skin. We assume, from the exact parallel course of the wounds and the saliva found that they were made by teeth such as the incisors of a medium to large-size dog.”
    “Dog! Dog!! What the hell is this?” shouted our intrepid district attorney, Thomas Paine, Jr. “Are you telling us a dog did these… murders?”
    Mokurji never raised his voice a single decibel. And he’s about half Paine’s size. He merely gave the D.A. a long, hard look, as if he was regarding the remains of some Mongoloid idiot, and continued.
    “Not a dog. I never said ‘dog,’ Mr. Paine. But is seems likely that the wounds were made by the incisors–or ‘dog teeth’–and there are many animals that have such physical equipment. Even, “he shot the D.A. a chilling little smile, “even men such as you, Mr. Paine. If I were to hazard an educated guess, I would say that whatever made these marks was most probably human.”
    Paine couldn’t stand it. “What the hell do you mean human? Who in God’s name has teeth like a dog?”
    Mokurji answered him, unruffled by Paine’s bluster. “Many men and woman have rather long and pointed incisors. Most often these ‘dog teeth’ are cured by simple orthodontal work or by