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I laid the newspaper slip on the table, in no very Christian frame of mind toward the persons concerned in producing it. Some reporter in search of news had evidently been prying about the grounds at Gleninch, and some busy-body in the neighborhood had in all probability sent the published paragraph to Eustace. Entirely at a loss what to do, I waited for my husband to speak.
"Never is a long day," returned my companion. "And time has its surprises in store for all of us." We turned away, and walked back in silence to the park gate, at which the carriage was waiting. On the return to Edinburgh, Mr. Playmore directed the conversation to topics entirely unconnected with my visit to Gleninch.
The investigations at Gleninch and elsewhere, beginning on the twenty-sixth of October, were not completed until the twenty-eighth. Upon this latter date acting on certain discoveries which were reported to me, and on my own examination of letters and other documents brought to my office I made a criminal charge against the prisoner, and obtained a warrant for his apprehension.
Benjamin whether you think my new Catechism worthy of examination or not." If you don't ag ree with this view, and if you are dying to be done with me and my narrative, pass on to the next chapter by all means! Benjamin produced the Questions and Answers; and read them to me, at my request, in these terms: "Questions suggested by the letter discovered at Gleninch.
He paid for the arsenic, and took it away with him wrapped up in two papers, the outer wrapper being labeled with my name and address, and with the word 'Poison' in large letters exactly like the label now produced on the piece of paper found at Gleninch." Kinlay. He wished to purchase sixpenny-worth of arsenic. My assistant, to whom he had addressed himself, called me.
If you want my experience to help you, say the word, and it is freely at your service. I can come and stay with you at Gleninch any time after the fourth of next month." With those abominable lines the readings from the letters of the women came to an end. The first and longest of the Extracts produced the most vivid impression in Court.
Or would he remember that my obstinacy still threatened him with reopening the inquiry into the tragedy at Gleninch? and would he set his cunning at work to mislead me by some new stratagem? This latter course was the course which my past experience of him suggested that he would take. But, to my surprise and alarm, I found my past experience at fault.
"For instance, I had more than one opportunity of personally observing that Mr. and Mrs. Macallan did not live together very happily. I can give you an example of this, not drawn from what others told me, but from what I noticed for myself. "Toward the latter part of my attendance on Mrs. Macallan, a young widow lady named Mrs. Beauly a cousin of Mr. Macallan's came to stay at Gleninch. Mrs.
On examination the gardener said, on his oath: "I never received any arsenic from the prisoner, or from any one else, at the date to which you refer, of at any other date. I never used any such thing as a solution of arsenic, or ever allowed the men working under me to use it, in the conservatories or in the garden at Gleninch.
I had all my reward for all that I had given up. I forgot Mr. Playmore; I forgot Gleninch. Our new honeymoon dates, in my remembrance, from that day. The quiet time passed, in the by-street in which we lived. The outer stir and tumult of Parisian life ran its daily course around us, unnoticed and unheard. Steadily, though slowly, Eustace gained strength.
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