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I don't mind telling you that I had a number of experiments on hand, as every doctor has, and I had those capsules put up at the drug store, but this tragedy coming on made me forget all about the matter." "Did you take the morphia with you, doctor?" "No, I did not. And the box of capsules, I do not think, has been opened. But that is easily ascertained."
"Rosine," he said, "cut a sandwich for that German dog, and then run into my room and fetch the black sealing wax from my desk." When she had gone off to obey him, Gaston Baudel opened a bottle of red wine and poured a little away. Then, fetching a small glass-stoppered bottle from his room, he emptied the contents pure morphia into the wine and recorked the bottle.
And I said: 'I am only a little exhausted. I finished my novel yesterday. It was my sixth novel in five years. 'With you, he said, 'work is simply a drug. 'Lord Francis, I expostulated, 'how do you know that? 'And it has got such a hold of you that you cannot do without it, he proceeded, with slow, faint shrillness. 'Some women take to morphia, others take to work.
"You're drugging yourself to a lunatic asylum," he had told her after a very brief examination. "Drugs? I, doctor?" she had replied with a little surprised raising of her eyebrows. "Don't prevaricate! Don't try to deceive me. You look a perfect wreck. All the signs of it. Come, which is it morphia, hashish or what?" "You're mistaken, doctor. I'm run down, that's all. I want a tonic."
Meanwhile the walls were closing in upon him. In order to prevent life from being a continuous burden, in order to maintain even the semblance of strength and manhood, so that he might have some chance of finding employment, he had to increase the quantity of morphia daily; but each succeeding indulgence brought nearer the hour when the drug would produce pain pain only, and death.
The opium thus collected is the perquisite of the Temple priests, and at the gate of the Temple there is a stall for the sale of opium fittings. Morphia pills are sold in Chungking by the Chinese chemists to cure the opium habit. This profitable remedy was introduced by the foreign chemists of the coast ports and adopted by the Chinese.
At the cost of no slight effort he had so reduced his doses of morphia that neither she nor any one could have detected anything unnatural in his manner. He praised their work unstintedly, and thanked Mrs. Wheaton for her kindness with such warm Southern frankness that her eyes grew moist with gratification. Indeed the rooms had grown so clean and wholesome that Mr.
Pierce reports the history of a woman of twenty-six who fasted for three months and made an excellent recovery. Grant describes the "Market Harborough fasting-girl," a maiden of nineteen, who abstained from food from April, 1874, until December, 1877, although continually using morphia.
During his terrible six weeks of high-pressure, he tells me, he reached a per diem as high as 25, on one occasion even 30 grains; but for a year previous he had never taken more than the equivalent of 18 grains of morphia a day. This, then, shall furnish our starting-point.
"Was it drugs?" the stranger went on easily. "I have always had a theory that it was." "Yes. It was morphia." The answer came before Chilcote had realized it. The woman's laugh at the stranger's quiet persistence had contrived to draw it from him. Instantly he had spoken he looked about him quickly, like one who has for a moment forgotten a necessary vigilance.
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