Last night I drugged him, and then--I knew." "Knew, Mr.Cleek?
Why, how could you ?" "The most virulent poisons have their remedial uses, Captain," he made reply.

"You can kill a man with strychnine; you can put him in his grave with arsenic; you can also use both these powerful agents to cure and to save, in their proper proportions and in the proper way.

The same rule applies to Ayupee.

Properly diluted and properly used, it is one of the most powerful agents for the relief, and, in some cases, the cure, of Bright's disease of the kidneys.

But the Government guards this unholy drug most carefully.