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Whoever made a practice of using it at the
Novella did not know his business, or he would have used it in
pills instead of in the nauseous liquid. It is not with
phosphorised ether as a medicine that we have to deal in this
case. It is with the stuff as a poison, a poison administered by a
demon."
Craig shot the word out so that it had its full effect on his
little audience. Then he paused, lowered his voice, and resumed on
a new subject.
"Up in the Washington Heights Hospital," he went on, "is an
apparatus which records the secrets of the human heart. That is no
figure of speech, but a cold scientific fact. This machine records
every variation of the pulsations of the heart with such exquisite
accuracy that it gives Dr. Barron, who is up there now, not merely
a diagram of the throbbing organ of each of you seated here in my
laboratory a mile away, but a sort of moving-picture of the
emotions by which each heart here is swayed. Not only can Dr.
Barron diagnose disease, but he can detect love, hate, fear, joy,
anger, and remorse.


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