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Updated: May 14, 2025
And when all that was at last satisfactorily arranged, Ayscough was conscious that it might be for nothing. He might be on a wrong track altogether due to the suspicions and assertions of that queer man, Mirandolet. There might be some mystery in Ayscough's opinion there always was mystery wherever Chinese or Japanese or Hindus were concerned.
The Coroner made no remark it was very evident from his manner that he considered Dr. Mirandolet's evidence somewhat mystifying. And Dr. Mirandolet stepped down and in response to the official invitation Dr. John Sperling-Lawson walked into the vacated witness-box. "One of the greatest authorities on poisons living," whispered Lauriston to Purdie, while Dr.
Levendale if not dead could scarcely fail to see that! Five minutes after Ayscough had gone away with Dr. Mirandolet the hotel servant who had summoned him from Purdie's sitting-room knocked at the door for the second time and put a somewhat mystified face inside.
Mirandolet laughed, showing a set of very white teeth, and glared at Ayscough with a suggestion of invitation to join in his amusement. He clapped Melky on the shoulder as if he had said something diverting. "Good hands, my young friend?" he exclaimed. "The very best in the world! Past masters! Adepts. Poison you while they look at you!" "Bit cunning and artful about it, mister?" suggested Melky.
But I shall be ten thousand times more surprised if there is any expert in Europe who can say what that poison was!" "You think it was a secret poison?" suggested the Coroner. "Secret!" exclaimed Dr. Mirandolet. "Aye secret is the word. Secret yes! And sure!" "Is there anything else you can tell us?" asked the Coroner. "Only this," replied the witness, after a pause. "It may be material.
"You'll see in a minute," replied Melky as he rang the bell. "Just a notion that occurred to me. And it has got to do with it." Dr. Mirandolet was in, and received his visitors in a room which was half- surgery and half-laboratory, and filled to the last corner with the evidences and implements of his profession.
I hastily examined him and found that my first impression was utterly wrong." "What did you think then?" enquired the Coroner. Dr. Mirandolet paused and began to drum the edge of the witness-box with the tips of his long, slender white fingers. He pursed his clean-shaven lips and looked meditatively around him leisurely surveying the faces turned on him.
Mirandolet, admitted them into an ante-room and turned up the gas. "We want to see that Chinaman, George," said the detective. "Shan't keep you long." "There's a young foreign doctor just been to see him, Mr. Ayscough," said the man. "You'd pass his car down the street he hasn't been gone three minutes. Young Japanese brought your card with him."
"What on earth do you mean?" he growled. "Speak man what is it?" Mirandolet suddenly laughed. "What is it?" he exclaimed. "Precisely what I said, in plain language! That fellow has, of course, gone off with the diamond worth eighty thousand pounds! Your card! Oh, man, man, whatever have you been doing? Be quick! who is this Japanese? how came he by your card?
Mirandolet, but it's only supposition on your part!" "Supposition that you'll find to be absolute truth, my good friend!" retorted Mirandolet, calmly. "I know the Chinese better than you think.
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