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Sleeplessness by night and fretfulness by day form a vicious circle, and attempts must be made to break it at all points. Chloral occupies the first place as a hypnotic for young children. In combination with bromide its effects are wonderfully constant and certain.
The tired-out man took one lingering look, and then walked quickly into the house. He locked the front door and went into the bedroom. He undressed quietly and got into bed, after laying his clothes tidily on one of the chairs. The chloral had not yet quite melted, so he took his tooth-brush and stirred the contents of the tumbler with the handle. In a few moments the last tabloid had dissolved.
After another silence, during which he had been watching her askance, he said: "Did you think I had taken that chloral voluntarily?" She made no reply. She sat very still, conscious of vague pain somewhere in her breast, acquiescent in the consciousness, dumb, and now incurious concerning further details of this man's tragedy.
"You thought correctly, Miss Tuppence. I have been morally certain of his identity for some time ever since the night of Mrs. Vandemeyer's mysterious death." "Ah!" breathed Tuppence. "For there we are up against the logic of facts. There are only two solutions. Either the chloral was administered by her own hand, which theory I reject utterly, or else " "Yes?"
She paused, as if waiting for Hubert to ask her to finish the sentence. But he hurriedly turned the conversation. 'The doctor said you looked as if you had not had any sleep for several nights. I told him that that was strange, for you were taking chloral. 'I sleep well enough, she said. 'But sometimes life seems so sad, that I do not think I shall be able to bear with it any longer.
A patient who cannot sleep and who has hypertension may receive bromids if he is very irritable or if there are symptoms of thyroid irritability; but the most successful sleep and lowering of blood pressure is caused by chloral. A dose of 0.5 gm. Chloral has been frequently given to reduce pressure in 0.2 to 0.25 gm.
"Out of the sight of this world" she muttered the words as she sought the chloral "I'll sleep, I'll sleep, I must sleep. Sleep or death, one or the other, so long as I am out of the sight of this world." But in her frenzy of desire for sleep she overlooked the slim bottle with the slim blond cork.
"Well, Sir Owen, she must have been doubtful if she had enough chloral to kill herself, for this is what I found." And the maid took out of her pocket several pairs of garters tied together. "You think she tied these together so that she might hang herself?" "There is no place she could hang herself except over the banisters.
She had thought it over, and had decided that it would be unendurable to live any longer, and had borne many a terrible insomnia so that she might collect sufficient chloral to take her out of her misery; and now, as she sat thinking, she remembered that she had never, never been happy.
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