I wasn't interested in Grady, so I came back to the case in hand.
"Look here, Godfrey," I said, "if it wasn't poison, what was it?"
"But it was poison."
"Inserted at the hand?"
He nodded.
"Goldberger says there's no poison known which could be used that way and which would act so quickly."
"Goldberger is right in that," agreed Godfrey; "but there's a poison unknown that will—because it did."
"It wasn't a snake bite?"
"Oh, no; snake poison wouldn't kill a man that quickly—not even a fer-de-lance. That fellow practically dropped where he was struck."
"Then what was it?"