Giving Up the Ghost (2015)
““No,” I heard Delaney say. “The lamps are out and the curtains are drawn.”
“Why?”
“Because Granny Doom wanted it that way,” he said. “How do you feel?”
I sat up in the darkness and heard the bed squeak beneath me.
“My head hurts, like I’ve had too much to drink,” I said. “I had a dream I was flying, that I was an owl searching in the night for something. Is there news?”
“The druggist, Karl Schmidt, came with the requested equipment,” Delaney said. “He was familiar with the tests Dr. McCarty had... in mind, and he tested the vinegar pie given to Calder, the scraps of food found on the plates in Hopkins’s things, and scraps of the sandwiches from the Ginery Twitchell.”
“What kind of test?”
“Schmidt called it a simplified Marsh test, whatever that is,” Delaney said, then he recited what he had learned. “He passed hydrogen sulfide through a solution containing the suspect material, and a yellow precipitate formed, indicating the presence of white arsenic.MoreLess
“Why?”
“Because Granny Doom wanted it that way,” he said. “How do you feel?”
I sat up in the darkness and heard the bed squeak beneath me.
“My head hurts, like I’ve had too much to drink,” I said. “I had a dream I was flying, that I was an owl searching in the night for something. Is there news?”
“The druggist, Karl Schmidt, came with the requested equipment,” Delaney said. “He was familiar with the tests Dr. McCarty had... in mind, and he tested the vinegar pie given to Calder, the scraps of food found on the plates in Hopkins’s things, and scraps of the sandwiches from the Ginery Twitchell.”
“What kind of test?”
“Schmidt called it a simplified Marsh test, whatever that is,” Delaney said, then he recited what he had learned. “He passed hydrogen sulfide through a solution containing the suspect material, and a yellow precipitate formed, indicating the presence of white arsenic.MoreLess
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