I haven't the least doubt that the hydrocyanic acid which caused his death was taken by him in a pill--a pill that was in that box which they found on him, Mitchington, and showed me.

But that particular pill, though precisely similar in appearance, could not be made up of the same ingredients which were in the other pills.

It was probably a thickly coated pill which contained the poison;--in solution of course.

The coating would melt almost as soon as the man had swallowed it--and death would result instantaneously.

Collishaw, you may say, was condemned to death when he put that box of pills in his waistcoat pocket.