Oh, she was dead--quite dead." "No statements, Miss Cumberland.

She looked the same, and you saw no change in the position of her hands ?" "None; they were just as I left them." "Miss Cumberland, you have told us how, immediately after taking the poison, she staggered about the room, and sank first on a chair and then on the lounge.

Were you watching her then ?" "Oh, yes--every moment." "Her hands as well as her face ?" "I don't know about her hands.

I should have observed it if she had done anything strange with them." "Can you say she did not clutch or grip her throat during any of this time ?" "Yes, yes.

I couldn't have forgotten it, if she had done that.