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-"Poison!" echoed Dan, startled out of his composure, for he was far from expecting such a word, "the doctor--"
-"No doctor can do me any good," sobbed Curberry lifting his haggard face, and looking up with wild, despairing eyes, "there is no antidote to this drug I have taken. It is painless more or less, and in an hour I shall be dead, as it works but slowly. Time enough for me to speak."