He has paid three or four midnight visits to Sol, the herb docthor, and you know that a greater old scoundrel than he is doesn't breathe the breath of life.
It has been long suspected that he is a poisoner, and they say that in spite of the poverty he takes on him, he is rich and full of money.
It can be for no good, then, that Woodward consults him at such unseasonable hours." "Ay; but who the devil could he think of poisoning ?" said Barney.

"I see nobody he could wish to poison." "Maybe, for all that, the deed is done," replied Shawn.

"Where, for instance, is unfortunate Granua?
Who can tell that he hasn't dosed her ?" "I believe him villain enough to do it," returned the other; "but still I don't think he did.

He was at home to my own knowledge the night she disappeared, and could know nothing of what became of her.

I think that's a sure case." "Well," said Shawn, "it may be so; but in the manetime his stolen visits to the ould herb docthor are not for nothing.