The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-03-20

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detection; but to prevail on her
to swallow a solution-it is bitter,
is it not2"
eyes, slightly so. / admit, l
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
caviare, which would disguise the
bitterness
"And does not all this, if true,
point to some one exceedingly ia
miliar with all the details of Miss
Darlington affairs9 Some one
who knew Of her nightly sand
wich? And, also, does it not i'm
ply the presence Of some n who
could and did insure her consump-
ton Of that sandwich"
cit would indeed seem so, Mr.
Stone; but, when it comes to dis
~cussing such a question IS that,
| 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
| am not obliged to express any
opinions or voice any suspicious"
"You know, however, that
Count Charlier is held pending in
vestigation?"
Yes, | know it: | have no
opinion to express"
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. DR.. 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 i'll the family and all
of the servants at Garden Steps,
but SO far he had held his mind
Iopen for impressions rather than
to formulate theories himself.
"Then, to sum up, DOCTOR" he
said, as he ros 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
ldosef"
Absolutely impossible, STRIP
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.
ling from them before she would
have touched a drug or a medi
cinal remedy of any sort. And
aside from that, how could she
get aconitine? It is not to be
bought for the asking at any drug
gist's! No, sir, my conscience
makes me insist OH that point
Miss Darlington never took thai
poison knowingly-either by &C
cident or design. It was given tt
her, without her knowledge, b,
a very, very clever villain"
Again, then, could it hav,
been given her innocently, by mis-
take7 I mean, if some one, he,
maid, or any friend, had wanted
to give her a sedative, and mean
only q light dose, but by error il
quantity"
HNo, sirl Not a chancel TIL
amount given was too great to b
an error, And every one in tina
house knows better than ever t
have attempted to give medicin
lin any fern or degree or for an,
purpose to Miss Lucy Caring
ton
1T was crime, then," sal
Fleming Stone, black crime. An
as such it must be discovered an
punished"
!. Yes, agreed DR.. Stanton, bu
he spoke with deep sadness an
as, one who feared where or tt
& ward whom such discoverie
might lead.
From the doctors house Ston
) went to see the Count.
That elegant gentleman we
j highly irate at being detaine
! against his will in such plain qua
sItcrs as the Tombs furnished, b,
he was not as belligerent or vii
dictive as Stone expected to fin
: Him