The presence of such substances in a banana was far from natural.

I took other bunches of my supply, and found in several bananas the same poisons, which had been skillfully introduced under the skin.

After some inquiries I found, from Fortin's own wife, that similar drugs had been sometimes seen in the hands of Lilihae, who had bought them of a druggist in Honolulu for the treatment of syphilis.

The riddle was at once completely solved.

A few days passed, and Lilihae killed himself by poison, convinced that all his attempts could not kill me.