Kedsty had received a blow, but it was not the blow that had killed him.

Afterward he had been choked to death.

And the thing that had choked him was a TRESS OF WOMAN'S HAIR.
In the seconds that followed that discovery Kent could not have moved if his own life had paid the penalty of inaction.

For the story was told--there about Kedsty's throat and on his chest.

The tress of hair was long and soft and shining and black.