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Updated: June 17, 2025
I accuse him of entering Cosmo Mornington's room and substituting a phial containing a toxic fluid for one of the phials of glycero-phosphate which Cosmo Mornington used for his hypodermic injections. I accuse him of playing the part of a doctor who came to certify Cosmo Mornington's death and of delivering a false certificate.
"But how?" exclaimed the Prefect. "By some substance introduced into one of the phials of glycero-phosphate, or into the syringe which the sick man employed." "But the doctor?" M. Desmalions objected. "Maître Lepertuis," Perenna continued, "did you call the doctor's attention to those brown patches?" "Yes, but he attached no importance to them." "Was it his ordinary medical adviser?"
Mornington, by his doctor's orders, used to give himself injections of glycero-phosphate of soda. He must have omitted the necessary precautions on the last occasion when he did so, for the wound was poisoned, inflammation set in with lightning rapidity, and Mr. Mornington was dead in a few hours."
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