“I think we must be getting on the road again.”
They took their leave and got into Wendover’s car again.
“We’ll drop you at your house,” said Sir Clinton to the toxicologist. “It was very good of you to take all this trouble to help us. I feel a good deal easier in my mind now that I’ve got this.”
He tapped the little jar of curare which he had brought away with him.
Chapter VIII.
Opportunity, Method, and Motive
Wendover picked up the decanter and poured out some whiskey for his guest.
“You can’t complain that I’ve worried you with questions, Clinton, but I think you might tell me something about this business at the Maze. You seem to have definite ideas, and I’d like to know what they are.”
He glanced at the tumbler as he spoke, then added:
“ ‘In vino veritas,’ you know.”
Sir Clinton looked up with a quizzical expression on his face: