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There were six capsules in this box, and one of them is missing. William Brenton poisoned himself! Feeling ill, he doubtless took what he thought was a dose of quinine. Many men indulge in what we call the quinine habit. It is getting to be a mild form of tippling. Brenton committed unconscious suicide!"
"Yes," said Speed; "and, thirdly, the poison may have been administered accidentally you do not seem to take that into account." "I do not take that into account," calmly replied the Frenchman, "because of its improbability. If there were an accident; if, for instance, the poison was in the sugar, or in some of the viands served, then others than Mr. Brenton would have been poisoned.
When you first knew Brenton, he was a bit uncommon, the ordinary product of Calvinism flavoured with something vastly more hectic. That was inside him, that hectic splash in his blood; it made him imaginative, greedy of new ideas, greedy to prove that they were good.
The nurse and Brenton were still bending above the frilly crib, smoothing out the muslin folds around the child and straightening the blankets, when the doctor came into the room, eager, his face alight with strength and purpose to do his share in what he knew too well could be only a fight to the very finish. The words of cheer died from his lips, though, as he caught sight of Brenton's face.
Later, when Brenton went away, he took with him the prescription for the tonic and gave the doctor his solemn word of honour that he would straightway telephone for beef and beer. He kept his word so well, and so clever had been the doctor's diagnosis that Reed Opdyke, flat on his back through all the torrid heat of summer, felt moved to express his envious approbation.
The other was the Frenchman, Lecocq, who was as deeply angered as Brenton, but, instead of being sullen, was exceedingly voluble. "I tell you," he cried, "it is not a mistake of mine. I went on correct principles from the first. I was misled by one who should have known better.
Libre 40 Indienne 40 Muron 40 Vautour 12 Total 962 & Hannibal, 74 not in the action, 1036. The Spanish and French admirals were on board the Sabrina frigate. List of the British squadron, commanded by Rear-admiral Sir James Saumarez, which defeated the above combined squadron, 12th July 1801, in the Straits of Gibraltar: Ships names. Guns. Captains. Cæsar. 84 Captain Jahleel Brenton.
For, though Scott had done his best to help himself, the real strain had rested on his mother, the more real in that it had been unbroken by the variety of his student existence, unrewarded by the elating consciousness of personal achievement which had come to him at the end of every stage of his development. In all truth, it had been upon Mrs. Brenton that the burden had fallen most heavily.
Reed spoke crisply. "I can't. The whole thing is galling me, I tell you, the whole " Brenton hesitated; "infernal sham." The last two words he flung out with a heavy defiance. "Sham isn't a polite word for that sort of thing," Opdyke answered swiftly. "You're the parson, Brenton; I am nothing but a sinner cut down in my prime. Still, in your place, I think I wouldn't call it all a sham.
Brenton, a strange fear coming over her as she stared at the girl; "guilty of what?" "Oh, madam, let me tell you all about it. There is, of course, no excuse; but I'll begin at the beginning.
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