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"His mention of the 'sleepmakers' and Paris," he replied briefly. Garrick had risen and walked over to a cabinet in the corner of his room. When he returned it was with something gleaming in the morning sunshine as he rolled it back and forth on a piece of paper, just a shining particle. He picked it up carefully.
Now," he concluded, "doubt it or not, we have to deal with a man who is a proficient student of these sleepmakers. Who is he, where is he, and when will he strike?" Garrick was now pacing excitedly up and down the room. "You see," he added, "the police of Europe by their new scientific methods are driving such criminals out of the various countries.
It is derived from henbane, among ether things, and is a rapid, energetic alkaloid, more rapid than chloral and morphine. And, preceded by a whiff of kelene, not even the sensations I have described are remembered." I could only stare at the outfit before me, speechless. "In Paris, where I got this," continued Garrick, "they call these people who use it, 'endormeurs' sleepmakers.
"Is that so?" returned the Chief. "Well, you're right about it as far as what has been in the papers is concerned. I don't know but I doubt about ninety-nine and ninety-nine hundredths per cent of it, too. But, I'll tell you, it can be done. Take it from me it can be done. I've got one of the best little sleepmakers you ever saw right from Paris, too. There, what do you know about that?"
That must have been what the Chief meant when he used that word. I knew it." "Sleepmakers," I repeated in horror at the very idea of such a thing being attempted on a young girl like Violet Winslow. "Yes. The standard equipment of such a criminal consists of these little thin glass globes, a tiny glass hypodermic syringe with a sharp steel point, doped cigars and cigarettes.
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