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RALPH took up the bottle and examined it with an amused smile.
"Perfectly true," he said coolly. "I purchased this tincture of opium at Keppell's--on behalf of Tarn. As a matter of detail, I prescribed laudanum for him--he suffered from insomnia. The fact that the bottle was found in the bushes makes it look suspicious, eh? In the ash-can it would have been damning, I suppose? And is that the new police theory, that Mr.