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Updated: June 27, 2025
Supported by the firm belief that he was saving her life, he took the glass from the bedside-table and put it to her lips. With painful efforts, with many intervals of struggling breath, she swallowed the contents of the glass, by a few drops at a time. He held it up under the shadowed lamplight, and saw that it was empty.
There was nothing else on the bedside-table save a silver cigarette box. T. X. drew on a pair of gloves and examined the bright surface for finger-prints, but a superficial view revealed no such clue. "Open the window," said T. X., "the heat here is intolerable. Be very careful, Mansus. By the way, is the window fastened?" "Very well fastened," said the superintendent after a careful scrutiny.
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