[MaC] Examining the body

Allen Veazey veazeyae at gmail.com
Mon Dec 27 17:20:19 EST 2004


>        "Or she might have been trying to run," Pamela suggested. Keeping her
> voice level had become something of a strain; Pamela wasn't cut out to
> be a coroner. "Errrr... Tabitha, could you please look at this when
> you've a moment?" She pointed first to dark circles around Nola's eyes,
> and then to dark purple splotches on her stomach. "It looks for all the
> world like blood-poisoning -- a rather advanced case of it, I should say
> -- and yet I haven't found any sign of an infected wound. I don't know
> *anything* about poisons, I'm afraid; not something Our Boys tend to run
> into. Is there one that would do this?"

Warren had shook his head, indicating he knew little, if anything,
about the subject. He had limped to the piano, and was lifting
the top of the instrument to look inside.



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