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"This ought to help, and yet I cannot see I cannot see," he muttered; then wheeled on Ward, who was watching him intently. "Come, Doctor, haven't you formed some theory which may give me a clue?" "I have," admitted Ward slowly. "It is one that may lead to very serious consequences. Curari is a poison that we Americans at present know little about.
"Doctor John Boyd is the only person who has any curari in this city to that I am willing to swear. Miss Newton may have confided to him that Lloyd suspected her of being a spy, and that she feared him. Doctor John may have overheard Lloyd when he told Symonds that he had absolute proof of her guilt. He attends several of Mrs.
"A poisoned blow gun dart such as is used by the South American Indians on the upper Orinoco," he said slowly. He examined it carefully. "What is the poison?" I asked. "Curari," he replied simply. "It acts on the respiratory muscles, paralyzing them, and causing asphyxiation."
When Doctor Boyd had satisfactorily answered the judge advocate's first question after being sworn, Warren began his direct examination. "Doctor, are you acquainted with the poison known as curari or curarine?" "I am. Some of the drug was given to me when I was last in South America. It is almost impossible to procure it in this country now." "How many people knew that you owned this drug?"
She asked me how to obtain a solution of the drug, and I explained in detail; then, seeing she was ready to go, I rose and put the bottle of curari back on its shelf in the small medicine cabinet that hangs near my table." "Is the cabinet kept locked?" "No. My old housekeeper, Martha Crane, has charge of my private office and would not think of disturbing any of my belongings."
The rest were armed variously: some had guns, others the native bow and arrows; some carried the gravatana, with arrows dipped in curari poison; some had nothing but machetes, or cutlasses for clearing the underwood, in case the game had to be driven from the thickets.
She was then excused, and her place taken by Doctor Ward, who in a few concise words described how he discovered that the syringe was not his, and that it contained a solution which, on examination, proved to be a form of curari. He produced the syringe and gave it to the judge advocate.
"Curari, called variously 'curara, ourari, woorali', a deadly poison which leaves no trace when injected into the blood, or applied to an open wound or sore." Warren's eyes were fairly popping from his head. "And you think?" he gasped. "There is not a doubt in my mind but that Captain Lloyd was killed by an injection of a solution of curari," declared Ward, positively.
It was easy for her to keep out of his way, for he was in Winchester most of the time. Then she remembered the curari the poison that left no trace! "Accompanied by Mrs. Arnold, she visited Major Goddard, and then found out where their rooms were located and how to reach them. Fate played into her hands, for on that sixth of March she met Aunt Dinah, whom she knew, having lived at Mrs.
"Did any one have access to your offices during your absence from the city?" "No. I locked both the doors and bolted the windows of those rooms before I left that afternoon, and took the keys with me, knowing that I might be away from home for some time." "What did you do on discovering the curari was gone?" "Doctor Ward and I agreed that Senator Warren should be sent for.
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