"Lots of folks have bought arsenic here to kill rats with.

They didn't all of them poison Miss Farrel." Albion nodded wisely and mysteriously.

"No, Lucinda's all right," he said.

"I ain't at liberty to say how I know, but I do know.

I may get bad cooking at the hotel, but I won't get no arsenic." Henry looked curiously at the other man.