It was easy.

And--who is there that would know how easily it could be administered but--a medical man ?" Mitchington and Jettison exchanged glances.

Then Jettison leaned nearer to Bryce.
"So your theory is that Ransford got rid of both Braden and Collishaw--murdered both of them, in fact ?" he suggested.

"Do I understand that's what it really comes to--in plain words ?" "Not quite," replied Bryce.

"I don't say that Ransford meant to kill Braden--my notion is that they met, had an altercation, probably a struggle, and that Braden lost his life in it.