Devil's Manhunt (Stories From The Golden Age) - Plot & Excerpts
He was between two rocks, voraciously gnawing at the packet of dried meat that Bonnet had furnished.He had eaten the packet of food halfway before he felt nausea; it was not an immediate thing and he attributed it to the starvation he had suffered. But when he took his next bite he realized that there was a metallic taste to the meat which should not be there. He chewed it experimentally, then the vision of Mr. Bonnet’s eyes glittered before him. In a sudden suspicion he looked at the meat.It was a piece of venison and it had expertly been slit through the center. Laying it open, he found tiny granules of a white something. He had only just started into the area.Tim was a mining man; he was too well trained by his hard old master not to recognize arsenic when he saw it.At first he could not lose what he had eaten, so starved and shrunken was his stomach. Then, when he finally managed it, the raw tissues of his stomach and throat lining churned into one spinning agony. He lay half-fainted and gasping on the rocks.About midnight he was able to drag himself to water and rinse his stomach.
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