第455章 MR. LEPEL AND THE HOUSEKEEPER(69)

"A view that startles me," the doctor said. "You remember my telling you of the interest he took in your symptoms, and in the remedies I had employed? Well! Mr. Rothsay accounts for the incomprehensible recovery of your health by asserting that poison--probably administered in small quantities, and intermitted at intervals in fear of discovery--has been mixed with your medicine; and he asserts that the guilty person is Mrs.

Mozeen."

It was impossible that I could openly express the indignation that I felt on hearing this. My position toward Rothsay forced me to restrain myself.

"May I ask," the doctor continued, "if Mrs. Mozeen was aware that she had a legacy to expect at your death?""Certainly."

"Has she a brother who is one of the dispensers employed by your chemists?""Yes."

"Did she know that I doubted if my prescriptions had been properly prepared, and that I intended to make inquiries?""I wrote to her myself on the subject."