Dead Men Tell No Tales

seemed frightened; not at all pitiful; and as I calmed down she recovered her courage and became insolent. I had spoilt her night. She had not been told she was to take in a raving lunatic. She would speak to Squire Rattray in the morning.

“Morning?” I yelled after her as she went. “Send your husband to the nearest chemist as soon as it’s dawn; send him for chloral, chloroform, morphia, anything they’ve got and as much


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seemed frightened; not at all pitiful; and as I calmed down she recovered her courage and became insolent. I had spoilt her night. She had not been told she was to take in a raving lunatic. She would speak to Squire Rattray in the morning.

“Morning?” I yelled after her as she went. “Send your husband to the nearest chemist as soon as it’s dawn; send him for chloral, chloroform, morphia, anything they’ve got and as much


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