“Rigor?”
7.8
“The stiffness that follows death. Great Scott!”
The doctor assumed an upright position, and stared, first at the corpse and then at Carpentaria.
“Great Scott!” he repeated.
“What’s up?”
The doctor made no reply, but tried to lift the left arm of the body. He could not, without raising the entire body.
“This is most interesting,” he said.
“What is?”
Again Rivers did not answer. Instead, he took his watch from his pocket, and put it suddenly against the ear of the corpse.