In fact he did everything to encourage it.
At last, however, the others did notice the time, and I think it
was with sincere regret that the truce was broken. Even then, no
parting shots were indulged in.
As we left, Inez thanked Kennedy for his consideration, and I am
sure that that in itself was reward enough. We parted from
Lockwood, who wished to remain a little while, and rode down in
the elevator with Whitney, a changed man.
"I'll walk over to the elevated with you," he said. "I was going
to my hotel, but I think I'll go down to the office instead."
Evidently he had got Senora de Moche out of his mind, at least
temporarily, I thought. Then for the first time I recalled that
during the whole luncheon there had been no reference to either
the Senora or Alfonso, though both must have been in our minds
often.
"What was it you had Inez drop into Whitney's coffee?" I asked
Craig as we parted from him and rode uptown.
"You saw that?" he smiled. "It was pilocarpine, jaborandi, a plant
found largely in Brazil, one of the antidotes for stramonium
poisoning. It doesn't work with every one. But it seems to have
done so with him. Besides, the caffeine in the coffee probably
aided the pilocarpine.
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