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A rough, deep voice, which I should certainly never have supposed to be the voice of a woman, hailed us from the inner side of the paling. "Who's there?" "Mrs. Macallan," answered my mother-in-law. "What do you want?" "We want to see Dexter." "You can't see him." "Why not?" "What did you say your name was?" "Macallan. Mrs. Macallan. Eustace Macallan's mother. Now do you understand?"
Macallan the difficulty I was in about going back or not to his wife's room without waiting until she rang for me. Before he could advise me in the matter, the footman made his appearance and informed me that Mrs. Macallan's bell was then ringing and ringing violently. "It was then close on eleven o'clock. As fast as I could mount the stairs I hastened back to the bedroom.
I was far too anxious to find my way into his confidence now that he had touched of his own accord on the subject of Eustace's first wife to be offended with Miserrimus Dexter. "We were speaking," I answered, "of Mrs. Eustace Macallan's death, and we were saying to one another " He interrupted me, leaning forward eagerly in his chair. "Yes! yes!" he exclaimed.
Macallan's mother when she was staying at Gleninch, but seldom or never entered by any one else. Mr. Macallan's mother was not at Gleninch while I was there. The door between the bedroom and this study was locked, and the key was taken out. I don't know who had the key, or whether there were more keys than one in existence. The door was never opened to my knowledge.
Macallan's valet had ordered the tea for his mistress by his master's directions. The under-housemaid made it, and took it upstairs herself to Mrs. Macallan's room. Her master, she said, opened the door when she knocked, and took the tea-cup from her with his own hand. He opened the door widely enough for her to see into the bedroom, and to notice that nobody was with Mrs. Macallan but himself.
Eustace Macallan's death was in the pecuniary sense a serious loss to her husband. He had insisted on having the whole of her fortune settled on herself, and on her relatives after her, when he married. Her income from that fortune helped to keep in splendor the house and grounds at Gleninch.
I only got into the study, to look at it along with the housekeeper, by entering through a second door that opened on to the corridor. "I beg to say that I can speak from my own knowledge positively about Mrs. Macallan's illness, and about the sudden change which ended in her death. By the doctor's advice I made notes at the time of dates and hours, and such like.
Eustace Macallan's own request. This book she had herself dispatched by post to Mrs. Eustace Macallan at Gleninch. There was but one assailable point in this otherwise conclusive evidence. The cross-examination discovered it. Both the ladies were asked, in turn, if Mrs.
Not long afterward, ma'am, I happened, while drinking tea with Mrs. Macallan's housekeeper, to hear of the Person again. He himself called in his chaise, at Mrs. Macallan's, to inquire about you there. How he can contrive to sit, without legs to balance him, is beyond my understanding but that is neither here nor there.
"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.
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