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Suddenly Hodder pushed back his chair and got to his feet, overcome by a choking sensation like that of being, asphyxiated by foul gases. He must get out at once, or faint. What he had seen in the man's eyes had aroused in him sheer terror, for it was the image of something in his own soul which had summarily gained supremacy and led him hither, unresisting, to its own abiding-place.
Something that burned, something that asphyxiated something undoubtedly cruel and treacherous and horrible existed in that green fluid; but when its time came, it would attack its victim with little sound, if not in absolute silence. So Bullard had imagined it, though he was prepared to find himself wrong.
"Good God, Kennedy," I exclaimed, "do you suppose the effect of that mescal on me hasn't worn off yet? Blue, blue everything blue is playing pranks before my eyes. Tell me, is the blue of that face his face is it changing? Do you see it, or do I imagine it?" "Blood asphyxiated," was the disjointed reply. "The oxygen is clearing it."
Patiently and ceaselessly he continued, hour after hour, until suddenly the hiss of escaping gas could be faintly heard. "I'm done for this time," he cried in despair. "I shall be asphyxiated!" But a gleam of hope quickly set him to work again. "Gas is lighter than air. It may percolate through the chinks of the masonry. In any case I'd rather die that way than be starved to death."
"I shall begin," said Kennedy, "by going over, briefly, the facts in this case." Tersely he summarised it, to my surprise laying great stress on the proof that the couple had been asphyxiated. "But it was no ordinary asphyxiation," he continued. "We have to deal in this case with a poison which is apparently among the most subtle known.
He saw women seated on the staircase; a horrible display of pallor and suffering of many kinds. Dutocq was almost asphyxiated when he opened the door of the room in which already sixty persons had left their odors. "Your number? your number?" cried several voices. "Hold your jaw!" cried a gruff voice from the street, "that's the pen of the judge." Profound silence followed.
A sulphureous wave of heat half asphyxiated the swarms of people who were hurrying to and fro in that restless undetermined way which is such a predominating feature of what is called a London "season," and the general impression of the weather was, to one and all, conveyed in a sense of discomfort and oppression, with a vague struggling expectancy of approaching thunder.
Her mistress was nearly cold in her bed; she neither spoke nor breathed, yet her face was pink. "I will go with you." He did not need to learn more. That rosy color, which has been observed in those asphyxiated by oxide of carbon, decided it. However, he questioned the maid.
Our chemists could have turned on currents of poisonous air and asphyxiated whole nations of them at once; our electricians could have sent an electric shock around the earth that would have left a path of destruction a thousand miles in width; our scientists could have concentrated the full force of the sun's rays upon any particular city they might choose and burn it up instantly; but they did not.
The sweltering heat turned to a suffocating one. As the morning dragged on we found it more and more difficult to breathe; there seemed to be nothing to inflate our lungs. By afternoon we stared helplessly at each other and gasped as we lay simmering on the deck. Were we to be asphyxiated there after all? I had known as many as two hundred a day to die in one South American city from this cause.
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