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Craig smiled at my surprise. "I'm making a little study of
intestinal poisons," he commented, "poisons produced by microbes
which we keep under more or less control in healthy life. In death
they are the little fellows that extend all over the body and
putrefy it. We nourish within ourselves microbes which secrete
very virulent poisons, and when those poisons are too much for us-
-well, we grow old. At least that is the theory of Metchnikoff,
who says that old age is an infectious chronic, disease. Somehow,"
he added thoughtfully, "that beautiful white kitchen in the Pitts
home had really become a factory for intestinal poisons."
There was an air of suppressed excitement in his manner which told
me that Kennedy was on the trail of something unusual.
"Mouth murder," he cried at length, "that was what was being done
in that wonderful kitchen. Do you know, the scientific slaying of
human beings has far exceeded organised efforts at detection? Of
course you expect me to say that; you think I look at such things
through coloured glasses.


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