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She had gone to bed in excellent health, and next morning she had found her dead. The Coroner asked a few questions relative to the case. Q. Miss Marchurst awoke you, I believe? A. Yes. Q. And her room is off yours? A. Yes. Q. Had she to go through your room to reach her own? A. She had. There was no other way of getting there. Q. One of the windows of your room was open? A. It was all night.
At last Mr Marchurst finished and delivered a long address of thanks to Heaven for the good food they had enjoyed, which good food, being heavy and badly cooked, was warranted to give them all indigestion and turn their praying to cursing.
Yet such was the case, for Mr Marchurst, not seeing Kitty at family prayers, had sent in the servant to seek for her, and the scared domestic had returned with a startled face and a letter for her master. Marchurst read the tear-blotted little note, in which Kitty said she was going down to Melbourne to appear on the stage.
But his doctrines were too shallow and unsatisfactory ever to take root, and it could be easily seen that when Marchurst died 'The Elect' would die also, that is, as a sect, for it was not pervaded by that intense religious fervour which is the life and soul of a new doctrine.
The bell sounds from the bedroom of Mrs Villiers, and having ascertained this they all rush in. What a sight meets their eyes. Kitty Marchurst, still in her ball dress, clinging convulsively to the chair; Madame Midas, pale but calm, ringing the bell; and on the bed, with one arm hanging over, lies Selina Sprotts dead!
The next thing for them to consider was how the poison was administered. According to the evidence of Miss Marchurst, some unknown person had been standing outside the window and poured the poison into the glass on the table.
Miss Kitty Marchurst was then called, and being sworn, gave her story of the hand coming through the window. This caused a great sensation in Court, and Calton looked puzzled, while Kilsip, scenting a mystery, rubbed his lean hands together softly. Q. You live with Mrs Villiers, I believe, Miss Marchurst? A. I do. Q. And you knew the deceased intimately? A. I had known her all my life.
I prevented her, and then she left me, went on the stage, and afterwards meeting Madame Midas, went to live with her, and we renewed our acquaintance. On the night of this well, murder, if you like to call it so we were at a ball together. Mademoiselle Marchurst heard that I was going to marry Madame Midas. She asked me if it was true.
But with regard to the death of Mademoiselle Sprotts, she died as you have said; but I, though the maker of the poison, did not administer it. 'Who did, then? asked Gollipeck, who was quite prepared for this denial. Vandeloup smoothed his moustache, and looked at the doctor with a keen glance. 'Kitty Marchurst, he said, coolly.
Marchurst put the nugget under the seat of the trap, but Madame was afraid it might slip out by some chance, so she put the box containing it in front, and then her feet on the box, so that it was absolutely impossible that it could get lost without her knowing.
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