Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-11-10

answer me beTlous question. nOW anu Nncu
could the poison have been given to Mrs. Cor
ing 9
when she drank that toast and water, MAJ
am was the old woman's unhesilaiing reply.
Il put my finger into the little that was left in
the glass and tasted il, and sure enough il was
as bitter as woimwood. Dr. Goring tasted it
also after me, and told me to lie bladder over
il, and lock il up 10 my cuboard ill the doctors
came he said there was poison in IL. The
doctors have got il now they tasted il when
gave il TO them, and they called the poison by
bad name, and DIR. Goring said he bad got
some Of the same sort OF poison in the surgery
Nurse how could the poison have got into
the glassi'
why, ma'am, it couldn't have got there Of
its own accord, so il must have been put in,
but IL you condemned me to the torture never
could guess who by. Who in this house wo'd
do such thingi None Of US. II we could
only find out who had been into the roomi'
Where was DR.. Goringi
Smoking in the harbor, ma am, as told you.
When followed him down stairs as was
going to my dinner, ] saw him stroll op the
garden and into ii, with his case Of cegars and
a newspaper He was a lighting a cigar as he
was going to it,
Gould he have come 10 without being seen J
OF course, Nurse Gill, you willno think sus-
peci him in this questioning proceeded, but
by throwing all possible light upon the move
men,s, Of the house al that moment VIC may
} obtain some clue 10 the real criminal
In coutse, ma'am, aequiesced the nurse, noi
body would be so wicked or SO silly as 10 doubt
I DR. Gorine. better husband never lived, bar
4 I 4 r saltt,u thath hp ia
4 fond Of having with the lsdies-and most men
!, arc alike for that, so far as see. He could
e not have come in without us seeing him, for
: our dinner table was close 10 the window, and
] we had full view Of the garden. Unless 'ad-
e ded the nurse, slowly, as II debating the point
with herself, 'he had come down the little path
n leading to the surgery but then some Of Us
: must have seen him come out Of the harbor and
G cross 10 it, No, maam, he could not have
1t come out al all.
il 'But you are not sure = urged.
Il would not swear TO il, but I'm morally
81 sure,' was her reply. Rely upon it, ma am.
he never stirred out Of the summer-house till
d rang The bell and brought him rushing upstairs.
"a Then lei US 60 on again. said. 'Assum-
iup that il could no, be Dr. Goring, or the ser
: vanis---'
7. sI'Il be upon my oath, ma'a:n, if necessary
a. Interrupted the nurse, that not servant left
r. the kitchen
10 aThe servants, or the children proceeded.
RI as IL she had not broken the thread Of my SER
L. tence, there is no one else in the house-but
IT. Miss Howard
IS. Dear ma'am,' uttered Nurse Gill, you'd
a. never suspec, her A handsome young lady
he though not over young, may be, for the matter
~ i---.Ad eiavs apd sings like 9
I'D eherebim, and with her mild, quiet voice-I'd
en- as soon think il was myself as her.
Ter Il was only asking about the position, tho
If whereabouts, of these in the house, if you re-
&c member, not talking of suspicion, returned
rs. DO you know where Miss Howard was while
'p you were at dinnerl'
nd She was in the dining-room all the while
IN. as I believe, and she never came out. Mis-.
le- Mary can tell you The same, ma am, if you'll
be please to call her in
ng l did call her in. Mary said, Il am try.
Sc. ing 10 ascertain in what part Of the house you
he sll were that day, during Nurse ellis absence
be at dinner. Your papa was in the garden the
It servants we're in the kitchen, and you and lit
} tie Jane, ! believe, were in the nurseryi.
Yes, Aant Hester she replied Miss
'ly Howard had been in passion with Jane at the
he mornings lesson, and she ordered her into the
iss nursery, and sent her piece OF dry bread for
$ +; dinner. thought il was shame, for il was
od only Miss Howard's temper was in fapli--bu,
rs it has been very bad since she knew she must
tn leave--and when papa rose from the dinner
nd table to got mammals room, Alfred rsl off TO
'e school, and went up in the nursery to take
&c. Jane some cherries, leaving Miss Howard in
he the dining-room.'
d. did you see nothing of Miss Howard after
It's that, before the alarmi'
nt oh yes, went down stairs almost directly
"a for some more cherries. She was still in tho
it dining-room, netting, and remember she COM
re-, pIained of Alfred, and said he was careless
nd boy, and had gone to school without washing
W, his hands. then wen, back to the nursery,
a. and stayed there till the nurse and baby came
70, up from dinner
The nGrsemaid, she means ma am, interrupt
IA ed Nurse Gill. she left the kitchen when
he did, and we both came up stairs together. Ba-
lr- by, as they still call lille John-had dropped
he asleep over his dinner and she was going TO lie
- him down. | say he sleeps too much for a
fl child of three years DID,
ad And when the nursemaid went up, you went
r. down. remarked to. Mary. Where was Miss
op Howard lheni'
ne Sill netting 10 the dining-room, Aun, Hes
Of ter, she replied, and she looked as if she had
en- not stirred from her seat. Directly afterwards
i. mamss bell rang violenty.'
ID 4 won't say as she had not stirred from hei
De, seat for don't know nothing about that, broke
nd in Mrs. Gill, but will say as she had not left
~. tho ruom, for il she had we must have heard
M her her'-.s....-------
sal Did yo hear no one go up or down stairs =
oy | inquired
'g, Not soul replied the woman, and we
had the kitchen door open. The house seemed
still as death. If this dreadful thing had no,
Use happened, could have been upon my oath
ne that nobody had been near the stairs
md 'You heard Miss Mary, when she came down
lily for the cherriesP