While Carmel lay ill and unconscious, I would not clear my name at her expense by so much as a suggestion.
"Charles," I repeated, but in a different tone and with a different purpose, "how do they account for the cordial that was drunk--the two emptied glasses and the flask which were found in the adjacent closet ?" "It's one of the affair's conceded incongruities.

Miss Cumberland is a well-known temperance woman.

Had the flask and glasses not come from her house, you would get no one to believe that she had had anything to do with them.

Have you any hint to give on this point?
It would be a welcome addition to our case." Alas! I was as much puzzled by those emptied cordial glasses as he was, and told him so; also by the presence of the third unused one.

As I dwelt in thought on the latter circumstance, I remembered the observation which Coroner Perry had made concerning it.
"Coroner Perry speaks of a third and unused glass which was found with the flask," I ventured, tentatively.