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"And if you had done so you would have been taken with a sudden fatal seizure, the cause of which would never have been detected." "You mean I should have died of poison?" "You certainly would. No medical aid would have been of any avail, for orosin is the most deadly substance which has ever been discovered.
I had established to my own satisfaction that Tito Moroni, the doctor of the Via Cavezzo, was the person who had distilled the orosin, and who had no doubt introduced it to his wealthy but unscrupulous patient as a means of ridding himself of unwanted persons and enriching himself at the same time. Indeed, these facts were eventually proved up to the hilt.
I had been admiring it all the time I sat at the table, but the colours seemed so dazzling as to bewilder me, to muddle my senses red, green and gold." How often had those words of hers puzzled me! Now I knew the truth! That magnificent Spanish shawl had stood out in her recollection as the last object she had seen before the deadly orosin had done its work. Then I told her my own story.
I see by your travels to Spain and the South that you are leaving no stone unturned to arrive at a true solution of the problem and I will help you. Orosin is the least known and most dangerous drug that has ever been discovered in our modern civilization. Used with evil intent it is unsuspected and wellnigh undiscoverable, for the symptoms often resemble those of certain diseases of the brain.
At once I described Gabrielle's symptoms and general attitude, whereupon the Professor said: "What you tell me are the exact symptoms exhibited by a person to whom a small dose of orosin has been administered. In most cases, however, such a state of mind develops into actual insanity with a homicidal tendency.
"And I thank you, Professor, for taking all this trouble with your analysis and so establishing the truth. I will go to the police and inform them." "Yes. I wish you to do that, for the fellow is undoubtedly in possession of orosin, and intends to use it. Perhaps he has already killed people by the same subtle and secret means." "He must be arrested at all costs," I said.
I smiled at my own innocence when I remembered how completely he had imposed upon me by showing me his papers of identity, and the photographs of his pretended family. Truly only a great criminal could have remained so imperturbed and polite to the man whom he intended should die. "This drug orosin is a very mysterious one, I suppose?"
That he was the greatest living authority on the symptoms and effect of the mysterious drug orosin I felt confident. I only longed that he would take Gabrielle beneath his charge and endeavour to restore her brain to its normal function.
The drug had been administered to me in just sufficient dose to ensure that my brain should be affected, and that any story I might afterwards tell should be discredited. Happily, however, I had now nearly completely recovered. I was the third person known to return to their normal senses after a dose of orosin. Would there be a fourth? Three further days went past, watchful, anxious days.
"Professor Gourbeil is the only man who has ever been able to completely cure a person to whom orosin has been administered and that has been in two cases only." "So the chance is very remote, even if she saw him," exclaimed the widow despairingly. "I think, Mrs. Tennison, that Gabrielle should see him in any case," I said. "I agree. The poor girl's condition is most pitiable.
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