The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-03-20

could be unostentatiously placed
in a sandwich, with little fear of
detection; but to prevail on her
to swallow a solution-it is bitter,
is it mott" 4tsn.4 ..-t
eyes, slightly so. 1 admit, /
cannot imagine any one inducing
Miss Darlington to swallow such
a draught. Therefore, it may well
be it was placed in a sandwich,
The filling, they tell me, was
c~aviare, which would disguise the
Bitterness sg. 4.
"And does not all this, if true,
point to some one exceedingly ia
miliar with all the details Of Miss
Carrington's affairs9 Some one
who knew of her nightly sand
WIGHT And, also, does it not i'm
ply the presence Of some one who
could and did insure her consump-
ton of that sandwich"
at would indeed seem SO, Mr..
Stone; but, when it comes to dis
cussing such a question as that,
l must ask to be allowed to retire
from the field. 1t is my duty to
tell all l know, from my medical
experience, but further than that
I am not obliged to express any
opinions or voice any suspicious
"You know, however, that
Count Charlier is held pending in
vestigationi" w.,
eyes, I know it,. / have no
opinion to express" a..
Fleming Stone rather admired
this gentleman of the old school,
whose courtesy was evident, but
equally so his determination to
say only what justice demanded
of his profession.
And then, like a flash, the rea-
son came to him: DIR. Stanton
suspected, or at least feared to
suspect, some member of the Car
rington household.
Of course, this was not a new
idea to Fleming Stone. He had
mentally gone over the possibility
Of every one in the family and all
of the servants at Garden Steps,
but SO far he had held his mind
open for impressions rather than
to formulate theories himself.
"Then, to sum up, DOCTOR" he
said, as he rose to go, "you assure
me that you consider it out of the
question that Miss Darlington
took the aconitine herself, say, as
a headache cure, or something, in
tending only a small curative
dosef"
Absolutely impossible, sirl"
exclaimed the old gentleman, al
most angrily. "To begin with,
Miss Darlington never had head
aches, and if she had she would
have borne any amount of suffer-
ing from them before she would
have touched a drug or q medi-
cinal remedy of any sort. And,
aside from that, how could she
get aconitinef 1t is not to be
bought for the asking at any drug
gist's! No, sir, my conscience
makes me insist OIL that point !;
Miss Darlington never took that
poison knowingly--either by ac-
cident or design. 1t was given to
her, without her knowledge, by
a very, very clever villain"
Again., then, could it have
been given her innocently, by mis-
take2 I mean, if some one, her
maid, or any friend, had wanted
to give her a sedative, and meant
only a light dose, but by error in
quantity-"
"No, sirl Not a chancel The
amount given was too great to be
an error. And every one in that
house knows better than ever to
have attempted to give medicine
in any form or degree or for any
purpose to Miss Lucy Caring
ton" l.
"It was crime, then," said
Fleming Stone, "black crime. And
as such it must be discovered and
punished"
Eyes" agreed DR.. Stanton, but
he spoke with deep sadness and
as one who feared where or to-
ward whom such discoveries
might lead.
From the doctors house Stone
went to see the Count.
That elegant gentleman was
highly irate at being detained
against his will in such plain quar-
tiers as the Tombs furnished, but
he was not as belligerent or vim
dictive as Stone expected to find
him.
Hasty work on the mart of the