The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-03-19


place, and my child would be here, and
should not be dying
What she said WaA too true and he knew
L.
How can get will made P she eoptiuu-
cd
Let Mr.. Norris come TO you In the way ]
have done tonight, and take, YOUR instrue-
tons
She appeared to catch eagerly at the sug-
gesiion. 80 he might ! had not thought
uf Il. The fact Is, Il was only when ] heard
sou were In the neighborhood. and was
worrying to eontrve how / could get to see
you alone. that Fry suggested the opening
Of the postern door. Yes, yes, Norris Is hon
est, and will sendrfor him, l shall leave
my husband nothing, Thomas
Leave him nothing' NothingP Is that
justice p
Justice and mercy too. leave him my
silence aud that is more mercy than he DE-
serves, lie poisoned my child
'lIush!' rehuked Mr.. Knge.
lie poisoned my ehiId.' abe persisted,
Caroline, this is 40 awfully grave ehargr.
III is true one. have known II all
along. knew Il when the ooroners inquest
was sitting. knew Il when you all went 10
put h i'm in the grave. lie had a bottle Of
laudanum In his dressingLoom, bur believe
none In the house, save myself had noticed
that he had IL, aud lucky for him they had
not. That laudanum bottle had been there
for weeks untouched, but il was missing from
It's place the evening before Tom died.
looked for il and il was gone ! wanted some
to pst to my toothi was Il not strange that
that very night Of all others, should have
looked for it and but that nightp'
Mr.. Rage made no reply. lie was as one
los, in thought
Il went To bed early that night, at eight
o'clock, and amer / was in bed. got up to
fetch the laudsnum bottle from his dressing.
room. II was not there. / was thunder
struck at its absence. because knew il was
always there. Soon afterward he came in
and when he saw me he started, like guilty
man and hurried something under his coat
as he went into the dressing-room. It was
the bottle remembered il afterward and
the next morning il v3s in It's place, no one
but himself having gone through my room
that night
Allowing ell ihis-I cannot disbcleve you
how could he have admi nisterSd It 10 the
child? Judith never left him.
lie did not administer il. Judith gave
tho poison
! Judith ! uttered Thomas Kags.
Judith, but not Intentionally. She be-
lieved. poor woman, when She gave him his
spoonful Of mixture that evening that she
was giving him his proper medicine. The
mixture bottle WAS taken away from the nur-
scry mantlelIee6 aud the iaudanum bottle
substituted, while Judith had brought the
child down stairs to me, and the nursery was
empty. Aflerward, when the evil was done,
and they had gone into the night nursery,
the bottles were changed again, and he came
snesking bSck with the poison in his hand,
little thinking that had been looking for il.
saw the next morning that some had been
taken out
Were the bottles alike?'
Exactly alike green glaSN bottles, and
about the same quantity OF stuff in each, and
the color Of the mixture and the laudanum
tailed. The labels were not alike, but Ju-
dith cannot read writing
Ah."
'Tincture Of Opium. Major Dawkes,'
was on the one the Mixture, Master Canter-
bury was on the other: Judith eamo 10 me
in distress few days after we arrived here,
4 r. 49,
was preYng upon her mind. 1t was, that
after shl had given the dessert spoonful Of !
mixture to the child that last evening, she |
was putting in the cork when her eyes fell |
on the words of the label and she thought !
they looked difFererti not the same she was
accustomed TO see /; but she had concluded il !
was her fancy, and put tho bottle on the
again. The next morning when
she look ed the old familiar writing seemed !
to be returned TO the bottle. Can you won
der added Mrs. Dawkes in an altered tone,
that have lived in fear--in nervous dread
that dare not provoke an open rupture
with him.
Did you do well TO conceal these circum-.
stances p inquired Mr.. Kage, in very low
tone.
Had known :hen--had they presented
themselves to my mind at the moment Of my
boys death should have inevitably proclaim
ed them to the world. But Fry was hasty
with her opinion that he must have died in a
fit, and adopted It in my wild grief When
the doctors had held their post mortem ex-
animation and declared the cause Of his
death to be opium, then the truth flashed up
on me, in confusion Of ideas at first, bat
little by little, each distinct point grew, and
spread out with awful olearless.'
He came down to my chambers that night,
asking me to advance somo of the. childs
money to him. murmured ThomaS Kage.