Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Detective and Mystery Stories, Crime & Mystery, British
ISBN: 9781172270538
Publisher: Nabu Press
Published: 2010-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
waste no more time if he were to see Lady Sannox.
"I am ready," said he, pulling on his overcoat. Will you take a glass of wine before you go out into this cold air?"
His visitor shrank away, with a protesting hand upraised.
"You forget that I am a Mussulman, and a true follower of the Prophet," said he. "But tell me what is the bottle of green glass which you have placed in your pocket?"
"It is chloroform."
"Ah, that also is forbidden to us. It is a spirit, and we make no use of such things."
"What! You would allow your wife to go through an operation without an anaesthetic?"
"Ah! she will feel nothing, poor soul. The deep sleep has already come on, which is the first working of the poison. And then I have given her of our Smyrna opium. Come, sir, for already an hour has passed."
As they stepped out into the darkness, a sheet of rain was driven in upon their faces, and the hall lamp, which dangled from the arm of a marble caryatid, went out with a fluff. Pim, the butler, pushed the heavy door to, straining hard with his shoulder against the wind, while the two men groped their way towards the yellow glare which showed where the cab was waiting.
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