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My idea is that if this Miss Lennard went into his room last night it was to be shown the Princess Nastirsevitch's jewels. Your cousin was just the sort of man who knew how a woman would appreciate an exhibition of such things. And " At that moment a waiter tapped at the sitting-room door and announced Dr. Orwin.
"We heard from the manager that you were in this room, Mr. Allerdyke," said Dr. Orwin. "Well, we made a further examination of your relative, and we still incline to the opinion expressed already. Now, if you approve it, I will arrange at once for communicating with the Coroner, removing the body, and having an autopsy performed. As Dr.
Fullaway and myself haven't the least doubt that he was robbed. So your theory eh?" Dr. Orwin had listened to this with deep attention, and he now put two quick questions. "The value of these things was great?" "Relatively, very great," answered Allerdyke. "Enough to engage, the attention of a clever gang of thieves?" "Quite!"
"Administered any way," answered Allerdyke. "Self or otherwise." He squared his shoulders and spoke determinedly. "I don't understand about this heart-failure notion," he went on. "I never heard him complain of his heart. He was a strong, active man hearty and full of go. I want to know everything." "There should certainly be an autopsy," murmured Dr. Orwin.
Orwin and the police-surgeons especially, as being a medical man in practice in Christiania, who had come across to Hull on some entirely private family business. Now, we've made the most exhaustive inquiries here in Hull there isn't a soul in the town knows anything whatever of Lydenberg! I'm as certain as I am that I see you that he'd no business here at all except to kill and rob your cousin.
"Deeply obliged to you, doctor and you can add to our obigations by giving us the name of a good man to go to," said Allerdyke. "We'll see him at once and fix things up for to-morrow morning." Dr. Orwin wrote down the name and address of a well-known solicitor, and presently went away. When he had gone, Allerdyke turned to Fullaway. "Now, then," he said, "you and I'll do one or two things.
Lydenberg came back, dressed, and on his heels came the manager of the hotel, startled and anxious, and with him an elderly professional-looking man whom he introduced as Dr. Orwin. When James Allerdyke's dead body had been lifted on to the bed, and the two medical men had begun a whispered conversation beside it, Allerdyke drew the hotel manager aside to a corner of the room.
Orwin gave the American a sharp glance which indicated that he realized Fullaway's understanding of what he had just said. "Precisely," he answered. "There are poisons known to experts which will destroy life almost to a given minute, and of which the most skilful pathologist and expert will not be able to find a single trace.
"People come in they stand about talking in the hall groups, you know they go from one to another. I think I saw him talking to that doctor who's in there now with Dr. Orwin the man with the big beard and to a lady who came at the same time. There were several ladies in the party the passengers were all about in the hall, and in the coffee-room, and so on.
It was supposed that the child was terrified on awakening and finding its vision suddenly diminished, and that the convulsions were directly due to the emotional disturbance. Orwin describes epilepsy from prolonged lactation, and instances of ovarian and uterine epilepsy are quite common. There is a peculiar case of running epilepsy recorded.
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