The newspapers were beginning to suspect something and were printing little squibs that would put Waite on his guard. Me "at to move fast: ud the way we did it was to start it. two widening circles—one round about the Plaza, the other round about the Riverside Drive apartment—to call on every druggist in the city.
The Plaza circle did the trick. In a drugstore on Lexington Avenue near Fifty-ninth Street was the record of a sale of 90 grains of arsenic on March 9, three days before Mr. Peck's death. The signature on the receipt required by law read "Dr. A. W. Waite."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.