human
Yes, said Major Lane, more kindly,
gpt
I ought perhaps to tell you that within an hour of my being shown these letters I had Mrs. Jarvice's house once more searched, and nothing was found connecting you with the woman, excepting, I am sorry to say, this;
human
Now, I should like you to tell me, if you don't mind doing so, where, when, and how this name and address came to be written?
gpt
Yes, I will certainly tell you.
human
I wrote that address about the middle of last October, in London, at Mansell's Hotel in Pall Mall East.
gpt
The poor fellow's going to make a clean breast of it at last, so thought Major Lane with a strange feeling of relief, for on the flap of the envelope, which he had kept carefully turned down, was stamped
human
Mansell's Hotel.
gpt
And now, I beg you, for your own sake, to tell me the truth. Perhaps I ought to inform you, before you say anything, that, according to our theory, Mrs. Jarvice was certainly assisted in procuring the drug with which there is no doubt she slowly poisoned her husband. As yet we have no clue as to the person who helped her, but we have ascertained that for the last two months, in fact, from about the date of the first letter addressed to you, a man did purchase minute quantities of this drug at Birmingham, at Wolverhampton, and at Walsall. Now, mind you, I do not suspect, I never have suspected, you of having any hand in that, but I fear you'll have to face the ordeal of being confronted with the various chemists, of whom two declare most positively that they can identify the man who brought them the prescription which obtained him the drug in question.
human
Of course, I am prepared to face anything of the kind that may be necessary. He added almost inaudibly:
gpt
I have brought it on myself.
human
Father, perhaps you would not mind my asking Major Lane to go into the library with me? I should prefer to see him alone.