If he were guilty he certainly had more nerve than any person Stratton had ever met.

So he hesitated.

Then he said-- "Sit down a moment, doctor, and let us talk this thing over." "Just as you say," remarked Roland, drawing up his chair again.
Stratton took the package, and looked it over carefully.

It was certainly just in the condition in which it had left the drug store; but still, that could have been easily done by the doctor himself.
"Suppose we open this package ?" he said to Roland.
"With all my heart," said the doctor, "go ahead;" and he shoved over to him a little penknife that was on the table.
The reporter took the package, ran the knife around the edge, and opened it.

There lay six capsules, filled, as the doctor had said.