en several stones had come out they found a large closet like a laboratory； containing furnaces； chemical instruments； phials hermetically sealed full of an unknown liquid； and four packets of powders of different colours。 Unluckily； the people who made these discoveries thought them of too much or too little importance； and instead of submitting the ingredients to the tests of modern science； they made away with them all； frightened at their probably deadly nature。
Thus was lost this great opportunityprobably the lastfor finding and analysing the substances which composed the poisons of Sainte… Croix and Madame de Brinvilliers。
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