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Meantime Arbella, who after all was human, was tortured at the sight of his tortures. She felt she must end it, or her nerves would give way. She trebled, she quintupled the dose of aqua distillata embittered with quinine. He then swiftly took the phial from its hiding place and drank the contents and died in one ghastly minute. When the night nurse awoke he was crisped in a horrible rigor.
"Up to three." Mr. Ransome's head was steadier than his hand. Ranny poured the dose. "Ac-acqua distillata to eight ounces," said Mr. Ransome, disjointedly, but with an extreme incision. Ranny poured again, and decanted the medicine into its bottle through a funnel, corked it, tied on the capsule, labeled, addressed, wrapped, and sealed it.
The family doctor who disliked her and suspected her, as you or I wouldn't have done, but doctors think of everything, feigned to agree; and supplied her with little phials of aqua distillata flavoured with quinine. He himself was puzzled over Sir Grimthorpe's condition but was a little offended at not being personally consulted.
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