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At once I saw a ray of hope. I took my box of medicines and my groaning, cursing, wounded Kalmuck to interpret for me. "Give that devil some cyanide of potassium," urged my companions. But I devised another scheme. We were led to the wounded chief.
I had accidentally found the clew of the bottle, and I knew that someone giving the name of Crouse had purchased the poison. But even then I was afraid Ray had given the tramp's name to shield himself. Though when the drug clerk said a man with a scar had bought the cyanide I had my doubts. Still I was not sure but what Ray had been hurt in a fight."
A man swoons, immediately he is picked up by the doctor, who gives him a harmless drug that is to say, harmless in small quantities. In five seconds the man is dead. At the inquest we find he has been poisoned cyanide is found in his pocket. And who is this man? Obviously the identical person who witnessed the murder of John Millinborn and whom we have been trying to find ever since that crime."
At the time that the outcrop in the Rand become exhausted, what is today known as the "cyanide process" had never been used in that part of the world. The mine-owners became discouraged and a slump followed. Jennings had heard of the cyanide operation, insisted upon its introduction, and it not only retrieved the situation but has become an accepted adjunct of gold mining the world over.
"I have always inclined toward the cyanide-of-potassium theory, either that it was administered in a drink or perhaps injected by a needle," he said. "One of the chemists has reported that there was a possibility of slight traces of cyanide in the mouths."
"If they ever run across us in here with the goods on us good-night!" hesitated a voice. "I don't like to carry this here cyanide we got enough for all the sheep and cattle in Montana." "Our lawyers'll take care of us if we get arrested," said Big Aleck indifferently. "Yes, but we mightn't get arrested these here ranch Johns is handy with rope and lead." "Ach, no danger," argued Aleck.
To any desired quantity of chloride of silver in water add, little by little, cyanide of potassium, shaking well at each addition, until all the cyanide is dissolved. Continue this operation, and add the cyanide, until all the precipitate is taken up and held in solution. This solution is now ready for the plate-cup.
In the evening, when the inmates were at home, they were treated with a strong solution of cyanide of potassium to destroy the winged insects; and the next day the nests were dug out and the grubs destroyed, which otherwise would become perfect wasps. Lately it has become a custom to pay a half-penny each for all queen wasps in the spring, but Mr.
"I should have known," Dundee admitted ruefully, as the three men entered Nita's bedroom, "that so ingenious a criminal as Tracey Miles would not have failed to provide against the possibility of discovery. He must have seized an opportunity to spill cyanide of potassium into the decanter when my eyes were off him for a moment and upon Lois Dunlap." "I'm glad he did," Sanderson said curtly.
"Ah!" he said presently, and not noticing, in his absorption, that the host had crossed again to the tiroir and was quietly searching in a compartment, he read aloud: "Little is known of cyanide of cacodyl, in its action the swiftest and most deadly of existing poisons.
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