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As far as we have gone we have always
been forced back to the original idea that it was a natural death-
-perhaps due to shock of some kind, or organic weakness."
Kennedy had thoughtfully raised one of the lifeless hands and was
examining it.
"Not that," he corrected. "Even if the autopsy shows nothing, it
doesn't prove that it was a natural death. Look!"
On the back of the hand was a tiny, red, swollen mark. Dr. Leslie
regarded it with pursed-up lips as though not knowing whether it
was significant or not.
"The tissues seemed to be thickly infiltrated with a reddish serum
and the blood-vessels congested," he remarked slowly. "There was a
frothy mucus in the bronchial tubes. The blood was liquid, dark,
and didn't clot. The fact of the matter is that the autopsical
research revealed absolutely nothing but a general disorganisation
of the blood-corpuscles, a most peculiar thing, but one the
significance of which none of us here can fathom. If it was poison
that he took or that had been given to him, it was the most
subtle, intangible, elusive, that ever came to my knowledge.


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