moulding-wax

Updated: April 30, 2025

Here I found Thorndyke seated at the table, and evidently full of business. A microscope stood close by, with a condenser throwing a spot of light on to a pinch of powder that had been sprinkled on to the slide; his collecting-box lay open before him, and he was engaged, rather mysteriously, in squeezing a thick white cement from a tube on to three little pieces of moulding-wax.

R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman - John Thorndyke's Cases : related by Christopher Jervis : and edited by R. Austin Freeman