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Updated: May 14, 2025
Mirandolet that it was impossible to do anything to save the man's life when he was brought to the hospital, and he was quite prepared to say that the impossibility had existed from the moment in which Gardiner had seen Parslett collapse. In other words, when Parslett did collapse, death was on him. "And the cause of death?" asked the Coroner. "Heart failure," replied the witness.
He was wearing a white linen operating jacket, and his dark face and black hair looked all the darker and blacker because of it. Melky gazed at him with some awe as he dropped into the chair which Mirandolet indicated and found the doctor's piercing eyes on him. "Just a question or two, mister!" he said, apologetically. "Me and Mr.
Ayscough there is doing a bit of looking into this mystery about Mr. Multenius, and knowing as you was a big man in your way, it struck me you'd tell me something. I was at that inquest on Parslett, you know, mister." Mirandolet nodded and waited, and Melky gained courage. "Mister!" he said, suddenly bending forward and tapping the doctor's knee in a confidential fashion.
Gardiner, and the Coroner, after a short interchange of whispers with his officer, glanced at a group of professional-looking men behind the witness-box. "Call Dr. Mirandolet!" he directed. Purdie at that moment caught Ayscough's eye. And the detective winked at him significantly as a strange and curious figure came out from the crowd and stepped into the witness-box.
Finally he glanced at the Coroner, and snapped out a reply. "I do not know what I thought!" The Coroner looked up from his notes in surprise. "You don't know what you thought?" he asked. "No!" said Dr. Mirandolet. "I don't. And I will tell you why. Because I realized more quickly than it takes me to tell it that here was something that was utterly beyond my comprehension!"
"I have heard, too," continued Mirandolet, "also from one of your people, about the strange story of the diamond which came out this afternoon, from the owner's brother. Now I'll tell you why after I want to see that dead Chinaman! I've a particular reason. Will you come with me to the mortuary?"
I was dumfounded!" The Coroner sat up and laid aside his pen. "What did you do?" he asked quietly. "Bade the policeman get help, and an ambulance, and hurry the man to St. Mary's Hospital, all as quickly as possible," answered Dr. Mirandolet. "While the policeman was away, I examined the man more closely. He was dying then and I knew very well that nothing known to medical science could save him.
"I found the deceased lying on the pavement, about a dozen yards from my house," answered Dr. Mirandolet, in a sharp, staccato voice. "A policeman was bending over him. Mr. Gardiner hurriedly told us what he had seen. My first thought was that the man was in what is commonly termed a fit some form of epileptic seizure, you know.
I say! let's go and take a look round there!" "It's what I was going to propose and at once," responded Melky. "Come on but on the way, we'll pay a bit of a call. I want to ask a question of Dr. Mirandolet."
"Beyond your conception, my friend," replied Mirandolet. "Unless I very much mistake your physiognomy, you yourself come of an ancient race which is not without cunning and artifice but in such matters as you refer to, you are children, compared to your Far East folk." "Just so, mister I believe you!" said Melky, solemnly.
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