[The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation by J. S. Fletcher]@TWC D-Link bookThe Rayner-Slade Amalgamation CHAPTER VI 3/16
"I may be wrong--my two colleagues are inclined to think I am wrong.
But they quite agree with me that it will be proper to preserve certain organs--you understand ?--for further examination by, say, the Home Office analyst, who is always, of course, a famous pathological expert.
That will be done--in fact, we have already sealed up what we wish to be further examined.
But"-- he paused again, shaking his head more solemnly than ever--"the truth is, gentlemen," he went on at last, "I am doubtful if even that analysis and examination will reveal anything.
If my suspicions are correct--and perhaps I ought to call them mere notions, theories, ideas, rather than suspicions--but, at any rate, if there is anything in the vague thoughts which I have, no trace of any poison will be found--and yet your cousin may have been poisoned, all the same." "Secretly!" exclaimed Fullaway. Dr.Orwin gave the American a sharp glance which indicated that he realized Fullaway's understanding of what he had just said. "Precisely," he answered.
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