Sherlock Holmes
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The boys had a strange look on their faces as they lay there, as if something had frightened the wits out of them just before they died.
That's very odd.
The face of anyone dying from pneumonia would be in repose.
Did you notice anything else, Mr. Coffin?
Any other peculiarity?
Well, there was one thing, sir, that gave me to thinking.
All the boys had marks on them.
Stretch marks, they were, on their necks or shoulders.
Perhaps they were bites.
Remember Dr. Rylett of Stoke Moran Homes?
Did these marks look like the bites of a snake, Mr. Coffin?
No, that they weren't, look you.
I know a snake bite when I see one.
Didn't these marks make you suspicious?
That they did, sir.
And when I saw them on the boys, I took my courage in my hands and asked Dr. Ponsonby.
And what did he say?
Inoculation marks.
He said that he had tried to save them with some new-fangled medicine.
No autopsy was held on the boys?