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The same day T went down to the Manor 2t Iisher, and had an interview with Mrs, Odell. I fely, in the interest of her SON, that it was my duty to tell her all T had

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Icarnt the previous night. Shewas terribly distressed, but stated that she had suspected for some time that her con was onven to optum smoking, though she had no idea he carried the habit to such a remarkable extreme. She requested me to retain POs- sesston of the goblet and the until Lier husband's return, aad, in the meantine, she promised (o take her weak and mis- guided son to task, and to have the sceret passage i the wall cifcctually stopped tp. I should mention that 1 ha manacecd (o save assmall quantity of the lquor that was m the goblet when I removed it from the club table; and T sent this to 2 colebratod analytical chemist for analvsis, who pro-

nounced 1t o be a very powerful and peculiar narcotic, made from a2 combination of Indian herbs with which he was not familiar,

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Lhe desmuciment has vet to ba recorded. A few days Tater Ronald Odell; after drug- aging himsclf as wsual, was found dead on onc of the couches at the club. This neces. sttitted an inquest, and the verdict wis that he had dicd from a narcotic, but whether taken with the intention of destroving lifc or mcerely to produce sleep there was no evidence to show, Althonolr T had 1o cvidence to offer, 1 was frmlv convineed in my own mind that the poor weak fellow had committed suicide, from a scnse of ~hamec at the dizcovery T had made.

OF course, after this tragic alfair, and the exposure 1t entailed, the Indian Dreamers? Club was broken up, and all s luxurious

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