As it is, I'll stay in Melbourne
long enough to give you the satisfaction of hanging this woman for
the murder, and then I will go to America.'
Dr Gollipeck was disgusted at the smooth brutality of this man, and
moved hastily to the door.
'Will you not have a glass of wine?' asked Vandeloup, stopping him.
'Wine with you?' said the doctor, harshly, looking him up and down;
'no, it would choke me,' and he hurried away.
'I wish it would,' observed M. Vandeloup, pleasantly, as he
reentered the room, 'whew! this devil of a doctor--what a dangerous
fool, but I have got the better of him, and at all events,' he said,
lighting another cigarette, 'I have saved Vandeloup from suffering
for the crime of Braulard.'
CHAPTER XIV
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
There was no doubt the Sprotts' poisoning case was the sensation of
the day in Melbourne. The papers were full of it, and some even went
so far as to give a plan of the house, with dotted lines thereon, to
show how the crime was committed. All this was extremely amusing,
for, as a matter of fact, the evidence as yet had not shown any
reasonable ground for supposing foul play had taken place. One
paper, indeed, said that far too much was assumed in the case, and
that the report of the Government analyst should be waited for
before such emphatic opinions were given by the press regarding the
mode of death.
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