The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-01

side, where / had put it. She drank
IL nearly all. It's as bitter as gall,
Mrs. G1il, she exclaimed what have
you done to lt?' 'Bitterr I said, why
| made it with my own two sinful
hands this morning. and I'm sure
the bread weren't burnt. It was not
bitter before dinner With that 1
turned to the Jug, which stood atop
OF the drawers, and. poured a drop
out INTO one Of the wine-glasses, after
rinslng the drains of port wine out,
and tasted it. And 1 felt then that
missis' mouth must be out of taste.
tor 1T was not bitter at all, but sweet,
fresh toast-andwater l did not say
SO, for 1t amt my place. ma am, to
contradict my lady's fancies, and
they weak and i'll, but was going 10
wash out the two wine Glasses, when
l saw missis a gasping on the bed. l
rang the bell furiously, deal longer
aud fiercer than the laundering foot
boy had pealed upon the knockcr,
and DR.. .Gorin9, who was smoking
in the harbor -
Smoking WHEREOF I asked.
''ln tho htrbor, MAJ m-tho s;;in-
mer-house i'll the garden. He heard
the rinSinG, and came flying up.
Susan came, at the same time, and
Miss Mary camc. Oh, ma';,m, [ can
hardly tell you what happened next;
my mlssis was in dreadful agony, aud
the room was full Of confusion, SER
wants and children crowding out and
IN. DE- Goring was the first to call
out that she must have been poison
ed, and the other doctors, when they
came, said the same. They could
not save her, and before 5 she was
gone. Poor Miss Mary took on the
least, to look, but She felt it, saw
more than any OF them, except her
father. 1t was mo as whispered her
to send for You, and she wrote line
standing up, and Susan tore off with
1t, without 1t bonnet and without a
stamp, that she might save the post.
thought it right that you should be
! here, ma'am.
"Quitc right, [ said: But now,
Nurse Gill, answer me serious Qucs-
ton. How aud when could the
poison have been given to Mrs.
Goring?''
W iitii SUE tll't!lN tI.ttI IOtlSU-
water, ma'an," was the old woman's
unhcsitatinS reply 81 put my
finger into the little that was left in
the glass aud tasted it, and sure
enough it was rs bitter us wormwood.
DIR. Goring tasted it also after me,
and told me to tie u bladder over it.
and lock it up in my cupboard till
the doctors came; he said there was
poison in it. The doctors have got
it now; they tasted it when I gave
1t to them, and they called the poison
by hard name, and DIR. Goring said
he had got some OF the same sort of
poison in the surgery"
'.Nurse! how could the poison
have got into the Slass?'
"Why, ma'am, it couldn't have got
there of its own accord, so it must
have been put in; but if you con-
demncd me to the torture, [ never
could guess who by. Who in this
house would do such a thing? None
of Ms. If we could only find out who
had been into the room!'
''Where was DIR. Goriug9"
Smoking in the harbor, ma'am,
as [ told you. When L followed him
down stairs, rs [ was a going to my
dinner, I saw him stroll up the gar
den and so into it, with his case of
cigars and a newspaper. He was o
lighting cigar as he went"
Gould he have come in without
being seen? OF course, Nurse Gill,
you will not think that suspect him
in thus questioning" l proceeded,
"but by throwing all possible light
upon the movements of the house
at that moment, VIC may obtain some
clue to the real criminal"
'In course, ma'am, acquiesced the
nurse, "nobody would be so wicked
or so silly as to doubt DR.. Goring.
A better husband never lived, bar
ring little bit of Joking and talking
he Is fond of having with the ladies',
and most men are alike for that, so
far as / see. He could not have
come in without our seeing him, for
our dinnert table was close to the win
dow, and we had full view of the
garden. Unless" added the nurse,
slowly, as if debating the point with
herself, she had come down the little
path leading to the surgery; but then
some Of us must have seen him come
out OF the harbor and cross it. No,
ma'am, he could not have corle out
at all "
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