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Leaving him the vials of digitalis and strychnine, therefore, I went back, and dined solus on my own car, indulging at the end in a cigar, the smoke of which would keep turning into pictures of Miss Cullen. I have thought about those pictures since then, and have concluded that when cigar-smoke behaves like that, a man might as well read his destiny in it, for it can mean only one thing.
It has its legitimate uses, like strychnine and other poison and drugs; but being a poison, it must be detrimental to living tissues, when taken frequently, and cannot have been intended by the Creator as a life-giving nourishment. Its habitual use is therefore not a necessity. Its abuse has therefore a more far-fetched malice.
It was Alfred Hardie, who had stolen on him like a cat. "I'm laad," thought Maxley. "Maxley, old fellow," said Alfred, in a voice as coaxing as a woman's, "are you in a good humour?" "Well, Master, Halfred, sight of you mostly puts me in one, especially after that there strychnine job."
In a few minutes the unfortunate animals were in the throes of strychnine poisoning and died in short order. It was a shock to me and a warning. The Mexicans continued for some time to be mean and threatening.
This may be of reflex character, as seen in the shock produced by the pain caused by corrosive poisons, or the poison may exert a special action on certain structures, as belladonna on the cells of the brain, strychnine on the motor nerve cells of the spinal cord. In Both Ways. Certain poisons, as carbolic or oxalic acids, act in this way.
His wife also cut her throat, and at the same time they gave strychnine to their only child. The effort failed, and they were placed on trial for attempted murder. In the Court a letter was read which the poor wretch had written before attempting his life: MY DEAREST GEORGE, Twelve months have I now passed of a most miserable and struggling existence, and I really cannot stand it any more.
"That action," he went on, looking from one of us to another, "may be therapeutic, as in the cure for lead poisoning by removing the lead, or it may be toxic as in the case of actually introducing such a poison as strychnine into the body by the same forces that will remove the lead." He paused a moment, to enforce the point which had already been suggested. I glanced about hastily.
"'This very night, by poison! "'Ah! I said, 'explain that. "'Madam has provided herself with strychnine, which she will place in the tea you drink to-night. Tea will be served in half an hour. He will be waiting for she forced him to agree and your cries will announce all to him.
The poultry had not died from eating the poisoned wheat she had scattered, because he had once read it somewhere because strychnine, that fearful poison which kills rats at once, does not harm chickens. "And human beings?" she interrupted him passionately. She seized hold of the man's shoulders as he knelt before her and stared at his face, which he had raised to hers with a look full of fervour.
"Were you in company with anyone?" "No." "Did you meet anyone on your walk?" "No." "That is a pity," said the Coroner dryly. "I am to take it then that you decline to say where you were at the time that Mr. Mace positively recognized you as entering the shop to purchase strychnine?" "If you like to take it that way, yes." "Be careful, Mr. Inglethorp." Poirot was fidgeting nervously.
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