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liberately, I understand Why "
“It was nothing really,” he explain. so they propped him up with pillows ed pleasantly. These gan pipes are because of his laboured breathing fold," I'm and 'phoned for his doctor.
"But, to their horror, Blissett was Amé dead before he came.
CONSIGNEES.
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AUSTRALIAN TRAMF STEAMSHIPS, LTD.
Steamship,
"TARCOOLA"
From SYDNEY & AUSTRALIAN *
PORTS.
The above named vessel having ar lyrived, Consignees are hereby inform-
afraid, and want cleaning. The jets weren't burning very well. Two or three times they spluttered [during dinner, and someone romarked on It Poor Blasett probably far- "Naturally there was an inquest. get. One of my servants must have The vomiting, the abdominal pain, interfered with the air shutter when
cleaning the the cold, clammy skin, and the fee touched it, letting in s little sir. Iti od that delivery of their cargo must
lustres Unconsciously blencas suggested food poisoning happened before. I simply turned the be taken from the ship's tackle Im Neidlessohn was obviously distres- Ras out and relit it It was while mediately the vessel is ready to dias ed. The remains of the caviare, the butler had gone for the coffee chat same and as fast as the ves
"I thought ne more of this at the el can bolled turbot, pheasant, and cheese time, but afterwards
If the Consignees fail to take Morrissey came souffle were analysed. Not a trace back here
de- He had been down to livery of the said goods within the of daything wrong was found, and Kingswood before 1
the time and at the rate aforesaid, took over the
aid, the none of the other three had even a 8. We sat smoking until our vessel shall have the liberty to dis- headache,
tongues were charred. That Blissett charge and store the goods in Godown had been poisoned I didn't doubt, but at the risk and expense of Consignees, "The Inquest revealed little but why couldn't imagine, if one ruled his All broken, chafed and damaged trivialities, such as the fact that the That's a beautiful chandelier he's be examined by our Surveyors, Messrs.
daughter out of the question.
goods are to be left on board and will gas had been put out and immediate got, I chanced to remark to Mor- Goddard & Douglas, on application.
In perfect condition, too. Consignees are requested to send in]
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ly relit because air had got in the frisses;, usually a bit missing in those their Bills of Lading for countersigna-]
turo immediately,
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
A Agents.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE,
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
pipe and it was spluttering. Also Blasett's partiality for chease souf- Jold
gee-gaws So there is there, declared Mor- fe: Neidlessohn had ordered it
"One of the "drops" you call rissey. specially. But Miss Blissett's se-it, don't you? It's right over where Hong Kong, 10th April, 1933. cret engagement to young Leghorne, you were sitting, I noticed it the in the Bank of England, came out. first time I went to Kingswood be-
Cause I sat where you did Apparently her father disapproved, noon.
this after- because Leghorne was only a junior Well, unless I want ginsses, or clerk; while his daughter was de- you're mistaken, I say. the branch pendent on him he expected to have over my head was completely perfect," some say in her future.
protested. Any missing or broken Hence piece would spoil the symmetry of the the secrecy. She could do as she lik lustres. You'd notice the loss by the ed when he was gone.
gap in the design," "When the inquest was adjourned.d Morrissey. But one of the drop The Steamship
It wasn't a whole lustre, persist- I took over the case. Although the on the end was missing. As you say, evidence of poisoning consists mainit spoilt the alignment: that's why I
“BENCRUACHAN " ly of symptoms, none of these is a noticed it. monopoly of poisons. With our round
"I was alleat, my brain surging formed that all geoda are being land- Consigness of cargo are hereby ́in-
minds focused on food poisoning, fact
small, now, innocent-lookinged at their risk into the bazardous we'd overlooked Blissett's state of
and/or extra hazardous - Godowns of "Did you say anything to Neidles- The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and health at the time.
sohn about it"
Godown "Good Lard, no,' laughed Morrissey: the wharves delivery may be
Co., Ltd, whence and/or from "As Neidlessohn reminded us, Hessments get broken in the best
obtained. wasn't really well when he went to uses. There's nothing in that Be-
No claims will be admitted, after Kingswood that night: he'd had laryn-sies. Neidlesson probably knows its the Goods have left the Godowns, and gitis. Now one of the latest cures missing for laryngitis is one-drop deses of
to rent.
all Goods remaining undelivered after aconite taken every half hour. It is if we're both right, one of the lustres
"Probably, I agreed slowly. But the 18th April, 1933, will be subject one drop of the tincture of aconit: was incomplete and is now restored; be presented to the Undersigned on or All claims agslast the steamer musi which is taken, and the number of That shows the missing "drop" has before the 2nd May, 1933, or they
pon its action and been repineed in the meantime.
Sup-will not be A posing you're right, whereabouts was extract
also adrenalin
employed; it in a solution of one in a thousand. This is
is applied
doses degulated by a doctor.
must be gland
recognised.
All broken, chafed, and damaged
You know where the branches Goods are to be left in the Godowns, focally by carve down and turn up again to the where they will be examined on the | Means a spray, but expert up gas jet? Somewhere about the mid-8th April, 1933, at 10 mm, by vision is necessary. When I hearddle of the bend."
this
Mesra. Goddard & Douglas.
To comply with the General Bond-
was the treatment prescribed by "Suddenly the clamped table con the specialist, my mind half-dreaded
ed Warehouse Regulations consignees and half-expected what we should find nected with my thoughts. The post-mortem tests showed
Keeping the table's position in must have a Revenue Oracer in great
when damaged dutiable redness of the stomach. That might mind that would bring that lustre im- tendance be the tabasco, of course.
But the mediately over the plate of whoever goods are examined.
(was sitting there," I pricking sensations-pepper doesn't do sett, for example. It may sound fan-ed
Baggested. 'Blis that. Not even too much tabascotastic, but supposing there was some The tingling of the lips, then the connection between that clamped table ed ilmus, pointed to a more deadly catist and the chandelier! I'd like to go to again, if we could ́per- suade Mr. Neidlessohn to be away for a few hours.
My mind raced to
-Aconite. "For &
moment the CARD WAS clear as crystal. an ugly conclusion-only to find an uglier fact. Twenty-five drops in the minimum lethal dose of the tincture of aconite. Blissett's bottle showed that he had taken only eight,
That smal'
theory.
and Valencia.
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this is how I worked it out after Morrissey had gone. The remains of the dinner had been analysed, nothing wrong was found, and none of the others who'd eaten the same food had fact exploded my been affected.
Therefore only Blis Blizselt's death waren't sett's food could have been before. vide, or death by misadventure. He'd It couldn't have been doctored [been wilfully and maliciously poison.
hand, because he'd been helped from "By whom? Slander said Miss the same dishes on the table as the And it couldn't have been others. Bilaselt had both
spportunity and-mo- tive. The matter of young Leghorne or
to him in a particular glas
the meal because The Steamship, was the only serious difference she that would mean an accomplice in the had had with her father: she could butler-an unthinkable and highly da su she liked when he was gone, dangerous undertaking. my sus- The old man's words came back with picion was correct, it must have been formed that all Goods are being land sinister meaning. Suspicion apread; dons at the table cunningly, undered at their risk into the hamardona like fire and does more damage, Life some harmless disguise that nobody and/or extra hamardona Godowns of became difficult, then unbearable, for suspected. Another point. Introduced The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Misa Bilaselt. She war followed, on a full meal, the action of poison and Godown Co, Ltd whance and/or taunted, insulted and threatened. We is delayed and mitigated in contrast from the whares delivery may be ob- could do nothing to arrest or protect to its action on her, because there was no evidence Blissett lived nearly three hours after
empty stomach. tamed.
No claims will be admitted after the in any direction, he'd had dinner, therefore he must Goods have left the Godowns, and all to justify a move All at once she did the most natural have been poisoned towards the end of Goods remaining undelivered after and foolish thing. She ran away.
"And again Neidlensohn helped us of the other dishes, he had two
the meal. Although he e sparingly he 18th April, 1933, will be subject Under pledge of secrecy, she wrote ing of cheese souffle. The trouble All claims against the steamer mus imploring him to help her clear away with the gas was at the end of the be presented to the Undersigned on. the threatening clouds, and, realising meal, remember: it was put out while or before the int May, 1933, or they the folly of her action no doubt, he the butler had gone for the coffee, will not be recognised. gave us her letter.
But for some seconds the room was All brokan, chafed" and. damaæst 17th May She was too distracted to be of any
"But bringing her back didn't help. in darkness.
Goods are to be lift, in the Godawpa, "Supposing death came with the where they will be examined on the and use, we were as much in the dark dark!
by Then I went down to
8th April, 1933, at 10a.m. before. Kingswood with Morrissey to see if would evaporate every drop of evi
"Delay was the only danger. Time Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, Neidiessohn could tell us
To comply with the General Bond- anything 21st Apr. fresh. And it was suddenly, while Naidlessohn away from Kingswood. must have a Revenue Officer in attend-
hdence.
The first thing was to geted Warehouse Begulations consignoea the three
of us were sitting round the got Miss Blissett to telephone him to ance when damaged dutiable goods table in the dining-room, going over come and fetch the incidents of that night, that woman her father had left
Tone-crystal are examined.
in his made an interesting discovery. I was will Directly I knew he was in towned.
with one I
Look Morrissey and a plain-clothes clutching the edge of Most round tables are, inclined to be
"Standing on the table, after the rickety. This one was as firm as expostulating butler had been put out rock. I glanced down, and saw that of the room, a horrible doubt seized the carved legs. were held firmly in me. The chandeller was perfect: not poriton between two unobtrusive
lustre nor a drep' wai micsing. wooden supports clamped to the floor. But the pear-shaped drop on the
When I looked up again 4th May sohn was looking straight des Lourth lustre from the gas let didn't at and hang as evenly real. The wire Unrough me. I felt like a small boy affiring it to the cylindrical body of caught at the larder."
the lustre was bent, I ald
it on my "That's to keep
It right 19th Apr. chandeller, he volunteered. Servants
wire that held the 'drop had have a knack of setting things Just been stuck in a tiny cork, and the the largest acele Admiralty chart of out of place. I got so ured of hav cork (invisible from below) pushed in the place and should be added to ing it moved to dead centre each the hole at the base of the lustre, depths, unters preceded by an asterisk
as
the
No Fire Insurance has been effect-
Bill of Lading will be countersign-
4th May back in my chair, the table. Iman and rushed down to Kingswooded by.
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"It was a beautiful chandeller, the "With shaky hands I cut the lastre kind of thing you see in state apart from the chandelier and sat down with ments, with the centre and four Morrissey at the table." Pulling the 16th Apr. branches covered
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