Her Faithful Knight — page 299: what you’re looking at

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The Exhumation. 295 the Hon. Mrs. Darcy Derrick. From what he saw and knew concerning the state of his patient’s health he had no hesitation in certifying heart disease as the cause of death. He had never prescribed laudanum for her. Until the night of her death he had not been to her house, nor had he until then ever seen her sister, who appeared, he said, so prostrated with grief that he feared for her reason and was compelled to immediately prescribe for her. The rest of the evidence as to burial, exhumation, and so on, was almost wholly formal, and the inquest has now been adjourned for a week, in order that the doctors and analysts may make their examination. Until they are completed you can do nothing but wait.” “T will obey you in everything,” she said gently. “In everything but what I most strongly advise,” he said. “To face a trial.” “Do you really wish me to do that?” Her eyes met his earnestly, appealingly. Aylmer’s thoughts flew to that sinister face, deadly pale against vivid scarlet lips, the face of the man who was waiting to claim her as his wife. “God help me!” he murmured under his breath, turn- ing sharply away. “I cannot advise you any more!” EOMIGHOO S (EC)