Nick Carter Weekly: The Little Glass Vial — page 20: what you’re looking at

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a a + os}; f. pronounced the contents of the syringe to be the same as the vial, and a deadly poison it was. "Supposing some of it was injected into a man’s wrist, what would happen?" said Nick. "Happen? Why, the man would be dead in ten second or less. This is a South American poison, Mr. Carter. It 1s, perhaps, the most deadly in existence, and the peculiar thing about it is the fact that in doing its work in the human system, it so quickly assimilates with the blood that it is next to impossible to trace it. Another strange thing about it is that it acts directly upon the heart, and in such a manner that the most experienced physician will imagine the victim died from heart disease." Nick thanked the analyst, and went at once to the Adams House for letters and telegrams from Chick. The coincidence of the fluids contained in the hypodermic syringe and in the vial, which he picked up in the snow at the Providence depot, being the same was remarkable, and, as he walked along, he mused: "One hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a pretty girl is a big stake to lose, Dr. Lord. But it wasn’t a man of science who placed that syringe point in man’s wrist!" 20 comicboolk CO