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Updated: July 15, 2025
The inquest had been adjourned until the Government analyst, assisted by Dr Gollipeck, had examined the stomach, and according to a paragraph in the evening paper, some strange statements, implicating various people, would be made next day.
Gollipeck looked at the young man again in a sharp manner. 'I hope you'll enjoy the book, he said, abruptly, and vanished into the house. When he was gone, the mocking smile so habitual to Vandeloup's countenance faded away, and his face assumed a thoughtful expression. He opened the book, and turned over the leaves rapidly, but without finding what he was in search of.
'Pshaw! said Rolleston, when he read these sensational reports, 'in spite of the quidnuncs the mountain will only produce a mouse after all. But he was wrong, for now rumours were started that the Government analyst and Dr Gollipeck had found poison in the stomach, and that, moreover, the real criminal would be soon discovered.
It was this that made Vandeloup so uneasy, for he knew that Dr Gollipeck would trace a resemblance between the death of Selina Sprotts in Melbourne and Adele Blondet in Paris, and then the question would arise how the poison used in the one case came to be used in the other.
I did not deny it; and she said she would sooner poison Mrs Villiers than see her married to me. She went home, and not knowing the dead woman was in bed with Madame Midas, poisoned the drink, and the consequences you know. As to this story of the hand, bah! it is a stage play, that is all! Dr Gollipeck rose and walked to and fro in the little clear space left among the disorder.
There was great excitement when this evidence was concluded, as it gave quite a new interest to the case. The question as to the cause of death was now set at rest the deceased had been murdered, so the burning anxiety of every one was to know who had committed the crime. All sorts of opinions were given, but the murmur of voices ceased when Dr Gollipeck stood up to give his evidence.
Suddenly, however, a new interest was given to the case by the assertion that a Ballarat doctor, called Gollipeck, who was a noted toxicologist, had come down to Melbourne to assist at the analysis of the stomach, and knew something which would throw light on the mysterious death. Vandeloup saw the paragraph which gave this information, and it disturbed him very much.
Gollipeck chuckled, and rubbed his hands, for this cynicism pleased him. Suddenly his eye caught the book which the young man had returned. 'You read this? he said, laying his hand on it; 'good, eh? 'Very good, indeed, returned M. Vandeloup, smoothly; 'so kind of you to have lent it to me all those cases quoted were known to me.
'In that case, circumstances, as represented by you, will permit me to choose my own destinations. 'Depends entirely upon your being guided by circumstances, as represented by me, retorted the Doctor, grimly. 'Pshaw! said the Frenchman, coolly, 'let us have done with allegory, and come to common sense. What do you want? 'I want Octave Braulard, said Gollipeck, rising to his feet.
Gollipeck answered the question by asking another. 'Why are you so fond of toxicology? he said, abruptly, shuffling his feet in the long dry grass in which they were now walking in order to rub the dust off his ungainly, ill-blacked shoes. Vandeloup shrugged his shoulders.
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