His Other Wife: A Novel — page 78: what you’re looking at

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70 * THE INDIAN’S PATIENT. He remembered that Amy had told him of seeing Croft wash the vial and the glass with a sponge. This caused him to look about for the glass from which the poison had been administered ; it was nowhere to be found. He inquired of Amy in a whisper concerning it; she sup- posed it may have been removed by some of the family. ‘‘Find it in the morning if you can, and bring it to me.” ? He had already put the sponge in his pocket, and was passing through the outer room on his way to the door on the garden steps, when the sight of a very curious old book in black letter type, lying open on a table which was well littered with other books, pamphlets, and papers, attracted his eye. He took the candle from Amy’s hand, and placing it near the time-stained, half-ragged book, began to turn its leaves. It was in some language quite unfamiliar to his sight. He asked Amy if she had ever seen her master reading that book. She said she never had noticed what books he read, and that she did not remember having seen that special volume before. Whether from its unusual age and appearance, or from the fact that it was in a strange language, that book arrested the Indian’s interest very powerfully. He turned from it to a large, well-filled book-case, where he found many scholarly volumes in the ancient and modern tongues, but these gave him no concern. He went back again and again to the rusty, worn book — on the table, Amy was watching him like a cat, and now, Eomicbooks.¢o 3