"After the autopsy ?" "Both of 'em told me--Coates, and Everest, who helped him," replied Mitchington.

"They said it was obvious from the very start.

And--I say!" "Well ?" said Bryce.
"It wasn't in that tin bottle, anyway," remarked Mitchington, who was evidently greatly weighted with mystery.
"No!--of course it wasn't!" affirmed Bryce.

"Good Heavens, man--I know that!" "How do you know ?" asked Mitchington.
"Because I poured a few drops from that bottle into my hand when I first found Collishaw and tasted the stuff," answered Bryce readily.

"Cold tea! with too much sugar in it.