The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 84: what you’re looking at

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THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. — 75 CHAPTER X, “TS HE DEAD?” The scene that follows almost. beggars descrip- tion; in all my hfe I have never witnessed a more thrilling situation, and I have been on a wrecked train, on board a sinking ocean vessel], and in other places of like interest where people show excite- ment. Women shriek and men utter exclamations. As for myself, I feel a cold shudder permeate my whole system when I hear the startling declaration of the negro porter, and see the look of horror upon his black face. | Robert dead! Good Heaven! how can such a thing have oc- curred? When last I saw him he was in 2ood health. I witnessed him empty the vial of the poison, and although he mechanically put it back in his pocket, 1ts contents had been drained through - the basin’s escape pipe. Then it seems out of the question that he can have taken any of the stuff. I look at Acton, and he returns the glance, as if to say in words: “What in the duse does this mean—have we been — outwitted after all?” Then both of us spring to our feet and press toward the center of the car. I glance naturally in the direction of the honor- _ able colonel and Evangeline. The girl acts her part Gomichboo ‘Ss co mn