The question seemed of such importance to me that I was tempted to give expression to my secret apprehension on this score, but I bethought myself in time and passed the matter over with the final remark: "Watch her, watch them all, and bring me each and every detail of the poor girl's sickness.

You will never regret humouring me in this.

You ordered the flowers for--Adelaide ?" "Yes; lilies, as you requested." A short silence, then I observed: "There will be no autopsy the papers say.

The evidences of death by strangulation are too well defined." "Very true.

Yet I wonder at their laxity in this.