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I see a possibility, a really startling possibility, in connection with the poisoning at Gleninch, which never occurred to me until the present moment. This is a nice state of things," he added, falling back again into his ordinary humor. "Here is the client leading the lawyer. My dear Mrs. Eustace, which is it do you want my advice? or do I want yours?" "May I hear the new idea?" I asked.
The less there is of that false and hateful Indictment on this page, the better and truer the page will look, to my eyes. To be brief, then, Eustace Macallan was "indicted and accused, at the instance of David Mintlaw, Esquire, Her Majesty's Advocate, for Her Majesty's interest," of the Murder of his Wife by poison, at his residence called Gleninch, in the county of Mid-Lothian.
In other words, it was rendered more unfavorable still toward the prisoner by the evidence of the next and last witness called on the part of the prosecution. William Enzie, under-gardener at Gleninch, was sworn, and deposed as follows: On the twentieth of October, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, I was sent to work in the shrubbery, on the side next to the garden called the Dutch Garden.
When the searchers next assembled they met at the great table in the library at Gleninch. Benjamin's experience with the "Puzzles" which he had put together in the days of his boyhood proved to be of some use to his companions.
Playmore, warning him, in good time, that I meant to make a last effort to penetrate the mystery at Gleninch. This last letter I inclosed to my mother-in-law, leaving it to her discretion to choose the right time for giving it to her son. I positively forbade Mrs. Macallan, however, to tell Eustace of the new tie between us.
I sat down by him, and looked over his shoulder, without the smallest pretense of hesitation. He began to write as follows: "The poisoning at Gleninch. Queries: In what position does Miserrimus Dexter stand toward the poisoning? "He has ideas which are secrets. He suspects that he has betrayed them, or that they have been discovered in some way inconceivable to himself.
"I was staying at Gleninch as a guest in the house at the time of Mrs. Eustace Macallan's death," he began. "Doctor Jerome and Mr. Gale desired to see me at a private interview the prisoner being then in a state of prostration which made it impossible for him to attend to his duties as master of the house. At this interview the two doctors astonished and horrified me by declaring that Mrs.
Gale, 'What is to be done, sir? And Mr. Gale said to me, 'I won't take the responsibility on myself any longer; I must have a physician from Edinburgh. "The fastest horse in the stables at Gleninch was put into a dog-cart, and the coachman drove away full speed to Edinburgh to fetch the famous Doctor Jerome. "While we were waiting for the physician, Mr.
"We are advancing steadily and successfully with the putting together of the letter," Benjamin wrote. "The one new discovery which we have made is of serious importance to your husband. We have reconstructed certain sentences declaring, in the plainest words, that the arsenic which Eustace procured was purchased at the request of his wife, and was in her possession at Gleninch.
So my mother-in-law spoke to me later in the day, when we happened to be alone. I had done my best to conceal all traces of the effect produced on me by the strange and terrible news from Gleninch. But who could read what I had read, who could feel what I now felt, and still maintain an undisturbed serenity of look and manner?
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