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"Nothing on earth. Oh, I don't say that if somebody had an axe handy and chopped your arm off at the shoulder an instant after you were struck on the hand, you mightn't have a chance to live; but it would take mighty quick work, and even then, it would be nip and tuck. Freylinghuisen thinks it is a new discovery. I don't. I think some one has dug up one of the old Medici formulae.
A very few minutes sufficed for Hughes and Freylinghuisen and I to tell all we knew of this tragedy and of the one which had preceded it. Grady seemed already acquainted with the details of d'Aurelle's death, for he listened without interrupting, only nodding from time to time. "You've got a list of the servants here, of course, Simmonds," he said, when we had finished the story.
Freylinghuisen, of course, had all this sort of thing at his fingers' ends post-mortems were his every-day occupation, and no doubt he had been furbishing himself up, since this last one, in preparation for the inquest, where he would naturally wish to shine.
"I will be responsible for their appearance at the inquest." "I'll have to postpone it a day," said Goldberger. "I want Freylinghuisen to make some tests to-morrow. Besides, we've got to identify d'Aurelle, and these gentlemen seem to have their work cut out for them in finding this woman "
Goldberger was there, with Freylinghuisen his physician, his clerk, his stenographer, and the men who were to constitute the jury; Simmonds was there, and with him was an alert little man in glasses, who, Godfrey told me in an aside, was Sylvester, the head of the Identification Bureau, and the greatest expert on finger-prints in America.
Freylinghuisen says that whoever concocted this particular poison has evidently discovered a new way of doing it or rediscovered an old way so that it is at least fifty per cent. effective. In other words, if you can get a fraction of a drop of it in a man's blood, you kill him by paralysis quicker than if you put a bullet through his heart." "Nothing can save a man, then?" I questioned.
Simmonds and Goldberger followed him, and their faces showed that they were as shaken and nonplussed as I. There was a third man with them whom I did not know; but I soon found out that it was Freylinghuisen, the coroner's physician. They all looked at the body, and Freylinghuisen knelt beside it and examined the injured hand; then he sat down by Dr.
There were three boats he might have come on the Adriatic and Cecelie from Cherbourg, and La Touraine from Havre. There is nothing else that I know of," he added thoughtfully, "except that Freylinghuisen thinks he has discovered the nature of the poison. He says it is some very powerful variant of prussic acid." "Yes," I said, "I heard him say something of the sort last night."
"We will try to get along without her," assented Goldberger. "If necessary, I can take her deposition. Is she in bed?" "Yes; I am keeping her as quiet as possible." "Very well; we won't disturb her," said Goldberger, and Hinman was excused, and Freylinghuisen called.
"Freylinghuisen thinks there is no necessity for a post-mortem," he said. "The symptoms are in every way identical with those of the other man who was killed here this afternoon. There can be no question that both of them died from the same cause. He is ready to make his return to that effect." "Very well," assented Grady. "The body can be turned over to the relatives, then."
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