force open the gates. The plot failed through the dilatoriness 
of the fumigating nes They arrived too late. The noise 
e 
ded. Many were the plans set afoot for the capture of the 
English chief Pu-ting ché—for whose head ten thousand 
were offered. is 
It is said that for nearly every poison its antidote may be 
found. These soporific pastiles come within the number. The 
difficulty in poisoning cases is to know where to look for the 
ledgets possess the property of “a 
nolent gas. If successful in these manipulations you 
ification of seeing your foe gasp and tumble over 
bat into the pit he had prepared for you. ee a 
: often made to a mysterious and extremely viru 
en by men of high rank when on the eve of exe 
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