In two or
three minutes the injection itself is working and the victim is
unconscious, without a murmur--perhaps, as in your case, without
any clear idea of how it all happened--even without recollection
of a handkerchief, unable to recall any sharp pain of a needle or
anything else."
He was holding up a little bottle in which was a thick, colorless
syrup.
"And what is that?" I asked, properly tamed and no longer disposed
to be disputatious.
"Hyoscine."
"Is it powerful?"
"One one-hundredth of a grain of this strength, perhaps less, will
render a person unconscious," replied Garrick. "The first symptom
is faintness; the pupils of the eyes dilate; speech is lost;
vitality seems to be floating away, and the victim lapses into
unconsciousness. It is derived from henbane, among ether things,
and is a rapid, energetic alkaloid, more rapid than chloral and
morphine. And, preceded by a whiff of kelene, not even the
sensations I have described are remembered."
I could only stare at the outfit before me, speechless.
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