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If such were the case, it seemed more than probable that to Count de Chamartin, the intimate associate of Oswald De Gex, a similar dose of orosin had been administered! The means by which the unfortunate Baron van Veltrup had met with his death was as ingenious as that practised upon me by the expert thief, Despujol.
But orosin is not known to a dozen people beyond those who study toxicology. Hence this man Despujol must have been supplied with it by someone who knew." The suspicion had arisen in my mind that De Gex and his agent Suzor knew that I was in Madrid for the purpose of watching them, and they had resorted to a very clever and secret means of getting rid of me once and for all.
"I mean that De Gex hired Despujol to make that attempt upon my life, and I have a suspicion one not yet entirely verified that Moroni prepared that deadly orosin by the agency of which it was hoped that I should meet with my death."
I must confess that I never dreamed when I commenced my investigations that I was in the presence of orosin. There is sufficient in this little tube" and he held it to the light "to kill a hundred persons. It certainly is one of the most dangerous of known compounds."
The first finger of his left hand had undoubtedly been cut, and hence infected with that substance which causes almost instant death and the exact symptoms of heart disease." "Orosin did you say?" asked the head of the Amsterdam police. "Yes," I replied. "Orosin the most dangerous, subtle and easily administered poison known to our modern toxicologists.
Anyone inserting a finger into the glove would certainly be cut by the razor edge of that sharp scrap of steel. As it lay upon the polished oak I bent to look at it, the valet also standing near and bending down in curiosity. Upon it something had apparently been smeared some colourless jelly, it seemed. Had Baron van Veltrup fallen victim to orosin, wilfully administered?
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