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Of course nobody ever heard Mrs. Eustace Macallan speak of arsenic. Of course nobody ever surprised her in the act of taking arsenic. It is in the evidence that she would not even confide her intention to try the poison to the friends who had told her of it as a remedy, and who had got her the book. She actually begged them to consider their brief conversation on the subject as strictly private.
We'll bandage it up, and take him home." "How very like a human being it is," observed Courtenay; "it appears only to want speech it's really excessively annoying." "Rather mortifying to our pride, I grant," replied Macallan. "That's exactly what I mean." Seymour tore up his handkerchief for bandages, and the monkey was consigned to the care of a native.
Benjamin was the first to ask me what had passed between my husband and myself. "You may speak freely, my dear," he said. "I know what has happened since you have been in Major Fitz-David's house. No one has told me about it; I found it out for myself. If you remember, I was struck by the name of 'Macallan, when you first mentioned it to me at my cottage. I couldn't guess why at the time.
Tired with the labours of the morning, Captain M did not rise immediately after their meal had been despatched, but entered into conversation with the surgeon, who was looking over the memoranda which he had made relative to the natural history of the reef. "Do you intend to write a book, Mr Macallan, that you have collected so many remarks?" "Indeed I do not, sir.
Macallan, as his successful rival in the affections of the woman he loved and that he did all he could to induce the unhappy lady to desert her husband are, in this case, facts not to be denied.
Eustace Macallan no mystery to you?" "I may have my own ideas on that subject, as on other subjects," the witness replied. "But let me ask their lordships, the Judges: Am I here to declare theories or to state facts?" I made a note of that answer. Mr. Dexter's "ideas" were the ideas of a true friend to my husband, and of a man of far more than average ability.
"I don't know what I am talking about?" he repeated, with his eyes fixed attentively, not on my mother-in-law, but on me. "You shortsighted old woman! where are your spectacles? Look at her! Do you see no resemblance the figure, not the face! do you see no resemblance there to Eustace's first wife?" "Pure fancy!" rejoined Mrs. Macallan. "I see nothing of the sort." He shook her impatiently.
The first of the ladies declared that she had mentioned arsenic as a means of improving the complexion in conversation with Mrs. Eustace Macallan. She had never used it herself, but she had read of the practice of eating arsenic among the Styrian peasantry for the purpose of clearing the color, and of producing a general appearance of plumpness and good health.
Eustace Macallan had expressed to them, directly or indirectly, any intention of obtaining arsenic, with a view to the improvement of her complexion. In each case the answer to that all-important question was, No. Mrs. Eustace Macallan had heard of the remedy, and had received the book. But of her own intentions in the future she had not said one word.
If I had been the vilest hypocrite living, I doubt even then if my face could have kept my secret while my mind was full of Benjamin's letter. Having spoken her word of caution, Mrs. Macallan made no further advance to me. I dare say she was right. Still, it seemed hard to be left, without a word of advice or of sympathy, to decide for myself what it was my duty to my husband to do next.
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