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Chapter Ten: The chapter of most discovery
In the morning I take the poison to the doctor to confirm if it is, or if it is not, the poison used to kill Mr. Fawcett. He tells me that as far as he can see into the matter, it is, and we should be looking for someone with similar poison, or access to the Crane household. I know that only Claire and myself have keys to the house. The doctor also is able to inform me, that the poison used by the murderer to kill Mr. Brinner was a rat poison, although not the same. After thanking the doctor and leaving him, I begin to think about the possibility that the poison was changed because there was no poison at my own house. If the murderer had found no poison there. Wait, there was poison at the house, Claire had said she found a little suitable poison but now that is all gone. So, there was poison at the house, and the murderer took some, and then Claire finished it. Was that the same poison that killed Mr. Brinner? It has been six days since the first death, any house waste would not be in the village. I must find that bottle.
Back in the house I ask Claire what kind of poison she found. Obligingly she tells me, and I inform her about my suspicions that the murderer had always used poisons from within my house. She agrees with my theory, and I leave her, to head to the place where the house waste was put, out of town.
As I reach my destination I am overcome by the awful smell of rotting meat and other household waste. There is the distinct smell of fatty smoke in the air which clings to one like a silk. I become to realize, that this search may take a time. I begin to dig my way through debris and litters, finding nothing but bones and waste, and coming upon holes with more buried. It is not a nice job, but I do need to find the bottle used to contain the poison used to kill Mr. Brinner.
After a good few hours search, I have a small collection of glass bottles that would have been suitable, to return to the house and ask Claire about.