And it isn’t?” “They couldn’t find even one lonely, living C. welchii in the water droplet that had been contaminated with bowel material. And that is precisely the sample that ought to be swimming with it. It should be teeming with Proteus vulgaris, too, which is a saprophytic bacterium.” “Translation?” he asked patiently. “Sorry. Saprophytic means it flourishes in dead or decaying matter.” “And Wechlas is unquestionably dead.”
