Juve examined the corpse. "A fine fellow!" he said quietly.
He turned to the superintendent.
"You told me just now that Prof. Barrell chanced to be present at the moment of death?"
"That is so."
"What did he suppose was the cause of death?"
The superintendent smiled. "Now you have it! Possibly you can throw light on it, my dear Juve, for I could hardly make head or tail of his diagnostic. The professor claims that death is due to a phenomenon of inhibition. What does that mean exactly?"
Juve shrugged his shoulders.
"Inhibition!... Peuh!... It is a learned word—very learned!"...
"Which means to say?"... pressed the superintendent.
"It does not mean anything."