Her Faithful Knight — page 318: what you’re looking at

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314 Tracked Down. stated, cried so much as to be practically helpless, while Miss Knight appeared half delirious with grief, and scarcely responsible for her actions. Later on the evi- dence of Dr. Morgan went to show that he had attended Phyllis—or, as she was then called, “Mrs. Trevelyan’”— during the preceding year. Undoubtedly her state of health had for the time affected her brain, and her subse- quent attacks of neuralgia and sleeplessness would tend to increase this trouble. The sisters appeared devotedly fond of each other, and their old servant seemed greatly attached to them. Dorothy had, so Dr. Morgan declared, nothing the matter with her, so far as he knew. Ques- tioned as to whether he had prescribed laudanum for either sister, he emphatically denied it. Then followed the evidence of no fewer than five chem- ists in the neighborhood of Lockhart Cottages, who stated that on several occasions a very tall, slender woman, of delicate appearance and ladylike manners, wearing her dyed golden hair cut short as a boy’s, had called at their shops in the evening and purchased laudanum, to allay, as she said, the pains of toothache. Evidence as to the exhumation of the body was next given, with the results of the post-mortem examination and the analysis of the contents of the body. Amid breath- less silence the wound in the head of the dead woman, 2 wound sufficiently serious to have caused death, was de- scribed at length, and an official analyst from the Home Office deposed to the weak but not absolutely diseased state of the heart, and to the distinct traces of laudanum having been discovered in the body. Questioned by the coroner, the witness stated that - either the injury to the head or an overdose of laudanum ~ might have been the cause of death. Mr. Searle, of Searle & Glyn, solicitors, deposed to attending the funeral of the deceased Dorothy Derrick, to micboo Ss (E@)