His Other Wife: A Novel — page 338: what you’re looking at

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330 FATHER LOUIS’ EXPERIMENT. He spoke very broken English. He testified that he was a chemist in the city of Puebla; that, a few weeks prior to the dates named as the period of Mr. Croft's settlement in Galveston, he was standing one day at the counter of a large drug store in New Orleans, where he happened to be at the time on business; that he sawa man come in, and heard him ask the druggist for a certain oil, which he knew to be an imported drug that was never manufactured in this country; that the man supplemented his demand by stating, before the druggist replied, that he wanted it for the putpose of making some curious experi- ment in chemistry, of which he said he was professor in one of the Western cities. The druggist did not have the drug, and the Mexican told the stranger that he could easily procure itin Puebla. The stranger ordered a small quantity, which he said he would pay any price for when delivered. He named a certain importing firm in Galves- ton as the place at which the package was to be deposited, simply addressed ‘‘M.C.,” and not labeled as to its contents. | The Mexican stated that, by the hands of a trading sea captain, he had sent the package according to directions, and been promptly paid by the merchant to whom it was delivered. | He had never heard anything more of the stranger, the - professor of chemistry, but had recognized Mathew Croft to be the same man who ordered the oil from him the moment he set eyes on the prisoner. comicbooks.co hae