2/16 There has been ordered an examination post-mortem!" "It is a case of poisoning then, I presume ?" the Prince asked, leaning forward. "It seems that the doctors could find no trace of disease, nothing to have caused death. They were not able to decide anything. The man, they said, was in perfect health--but dead." "It must have been, then," the Prince remarked, "a very wonderful poison." "Without doubt," Baron Opperman answered. "Indeed the science of toxicology was never so ill-understood as now. |