His Other Wife: A Novel — page 337: what you’re looking at

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FATHER LOUIS’ EXPERIMENT. 329 odor of these articles. It is precisely the same, though fainter, as that just a little while ago exhaled from the essential oil I exhibited to the court.” The judge ordered the articles passed to the jury, and desired their opinion as to the odor they emitted. One of the jurymen, whom the smell of the oil had very sensibly nauseated, said, as he held the flask to his nose: ‘“Pah! I should know that smell if I perceived it in the middle of a wilderness a thousand years hence. It is the same as the oil.” | All the twelve jurors, in language less emphatic, con- curred in pronouncing it the same as the oil. Mr. Craig resumed possession of the flask and sponge, and took his seat, in signal that he was through with the witness, who was still upon the stand, looking weary with his long examination. The judge said: ‘‘Does the counsel for the defense desire to interrogate the witness?” Mr. Dale looked up at his client, the prisoner. Mr. Croft, without changing his indolent posture, leaning back in his chair, with one hand supporting his head, shook his head negatively at Mr. Dale, who declined to put any question to the witness. Father Louis then retired from the stand. His place was immediately taken by an old man witha white beard that flowed down over his chest, and white hair that curled around his forehead, and his face was dark as a Moor’s. GComichoo “Si: (Ee)