Of course, you do not think it strong enough to convict a man of such a serious crime as murder ?" "No; I quite realize the weakness of the case up to this point.

But there is more to follow.

Fourteen days before that dinner you purchased at the drug store on the corner of Blank Street and Nemo Avenue thirty grains of morphia.

You had the poison put up in capsules of five grains each.

What do you say to that bit of evidence added to the circumstantial chain which you say is ingenious ?" The doctor knit his brows and leaned back in his chair.
"By the gods!" he said, "you are right.