eye saw what the other doctors had seen. The
girl would recover! If she was to die, it must be by his hand. Now how
should he accomplish it? By what means rid himself of the girl, and be
safe from the hangman himself. Here the diabolical working of a
scientific mind reveals itself. As he has told us he well knew her
condition. He knew that she had kidney disease. He knew that she had
been taking morphine, and readily guessed that some of the deadly drug
was still stored up in her system. If he administered morphine to this
poor woman, infatuated alike with the drug and with him, she would not
offer the slightest remonstrance. No cry would escape her lips as the
deadly needle punctured her fair flesh. Loving him and trusting him,
she would yield to his suggestion, and so go into the last sleep. But
what of the after effects? He certainly would think of that? Why,
certainly! The girl would die of coma, and the attending physicians,
if summoned in time, would say that she died of anaemia caused by
diphtheria. Or, even if suspicion were aroused, it might be claimed
afterwards, just, gentlemen, as it has been claimed, that the drug was
self-administered, and was not enough in itself to have proven fatal.
He knew that the autopsy would substantiate his claim of kidney
trouble, and that the toxicologists would admit the effect upon
morphine. But more than all, being himself something of an expert in
all branches of medical science, and especially in chemistry, he could
almost to a nicety gauge the quantity of the drug which would be
required, which of itself might not prove fatal to a morphine
_habitue_, but which would compass her death when added to what was
already in her system. Chance seemed to favor his horrible design, for
Dr. Fisher had left his syringe and a supply of the drug. See this
fiend, this scientific wife murderer, measure out and prepare the
lethal dose! See him pierce the yielding flesh and inject the deadly
drug, and then, lo! Providence brings upon the scene a witness to the
deed! The nurse returns unexpectedly and sees, gentlemen, mark my
words, actually sees this man in the act of using the hypodermic
syringe!

"What can he do? He knows that it would be hazardous to deny the
testimony of this trained nurse. Therefore he admits what she tells
us, and then ingeniously invents the explanation that he was removing
the syringe, but had not made the injection. But I submit it to you,
gentlemen, is that a pr