The bottle in her right hand was the first bottle she looked at. It was
marked--_Sal-volatile_.
She instantly laid the other bottle aside on the table without looking
at it. The other bottle lay there, waiting its turn. It held a dark
liquid, and it was labeled--POISON.
CHAPTER II.
MRS. LECOUNT mixed the sal-volatile with water, and administered
it immediately. The stimulant had its effect. In a few minutes Noel
Vanstone was able to raise himself in the chair without assistance; his
color changed again for the better, and his breath came and went more
freely.
"How do you feel now, sir?" asked Mrs. Lecount. "Are you warm again on
your left side?"
He paid no attention to that inquiry; his eyes, wandering about the
room, turned by chance toward the table. To Mrs. Lecount's surprise,
instead of answering her, he bent forward in his chair, and looked with
staring eyes and pointing hand at the second bottle which she had taken
from the cupboard, and which she had hastily laid aside without paying
attention to it. Seeing that some new alarm possessed him, she advanced
to the table, and looked where he looked. The labeled side of the bottle
was full in view; and there, in the plain handwriting of the chemist at
Aldborough, was the one startling word confronting them both--"Poison.
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