Then Frank stopped her machinery.
The professor had gone outside.
He viewed what little there was of the carcase on the surface, and going back again, he said to Frank:
“We can’t do anything with that object in the state it is in now.”
“What do you propose to do?”
“Only carry away the skeleton.”
“Strip it of that rotten flesh?”
“No; we can let the scavengers of this neighborhood do that for us.”
“How do you mean, doctor?”
“Blow the mud away from around that body so as to leave it exposed. The odor will attract the foxes and the wolves here. They will devour the flesh, picking the bones dry.”