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"No." He shook his head. "I think it's better but you must sleep to-night. Have you anything to take?" "I have trional but maybe I won't need it." He closed the windows and shot the bolt of the front door; then, at the head of the stairs, they both paused. "I would like to kiss you good-night," he said with a queer smile, "but "
The Indians were soon snoring, but sleep would not come to me, tired as I was, and I had not slept at all the previous night. So presently I took trional, X grs., and dozed off till morning.
Now I must really have a trional and get some rest." And when she was alone she went deliberately to the glass and smiled radiantly to herself as she whispered aloud: "So he isn't going to die or be an idiot. In a few years he can still be Prime Minister. And I have got him now, as sure as fate!"
I am leaving at a rather ungodly hour to-morrow and won't see you, but I hope to return within the week." "I hope so, Jack." "And, after all, it is too late to be reading. I shall go back to bed and take more trional. And then, I dare say, I shall sleep. So good-by, Rudolph." "Good-night, Jack." "Oh, yes ! I meant good-night, of course."
'No, I said, 'not that. And I explained to her that Diaz had taken at least six doses of my strong solution of trional.
Well, I made an excuse that she'd looked tired, and complained of the noise under her windows preventing her sleeping. I offered her some trional, and then I just lingered. She thought it wise to be nice to your aunt, and I turned the conversation to you. She said you were charming. I said you would be, if you hadn't such a terrible temper.
The wretched man drew the back of a trembling hand across his moist eyes. He inhaled a long sobbing breath and broke into apology for his weakness. "Haven't slept for a week except from trional. The back of my head pricks day and night. Can't think of anything but my troubles." "Unload them on me," Jeff said lightly. "It's that mortgage on my mill," Killen blurted out.
Sulphonal, trional, morphia, each tried in turn had no power to prevent him from dreaming. Sleep as soundly as he would, just as he was awaking, the black blanket of slumber, turned up at a corner or an edge by some mysterious hand, would reveal a dream or part of one.
"Not Sir Lucien?" "Oh, no. But both of them had been before." "What was Kazmah's connection with Mrs. Sin and her husband?" "I have no idea, Inspector. Kazmah used to supply cocaine and veronal and trional and heroin, but those who wanted to smoke opium he sent to Mrs. Sin." "What! he gave them her address?" "No, no! He gave her their address." "I see. She called?" "Yes.
Quinine for the regular morning and evening doses, sulphonal and trional for insomnia, ether for injections in case of anemia after hemorrhage, morphine for delirium, citrite of caffeine for weakness of the heart, tincture of valerian for the tympanites, bismuth to relieve nausea and vomiting, and the crushed ice wrapped in flannel cloths for the cold pack in the event of hyperpyrexia.
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