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Glancing with careless curiosity at the disorder of the dinner-table,

she noticed solass

Had artificial means been used to reduce him to his present condition?

She tasted the claret No; there was nothing in the flavour of it which

betrayed that he had been drugged If the waiter was to be believed, he

had only drunk claret--and there he was, in a state of helpless

stupefaction, nevertheless

She looked again at the dinner-table, and discovered one, a the

many empty bottles, with some wine still left in it After a moment of

reflection, she took a clean tumbler from the sideboard

Here was the hich had been an object of derision to Mr Viross feeders and drinkers; and it ht not

be a for

the taste of a drug now; her present experiment proposed to try the

wine on its own e--before the date of

her unlucky e--rich admirers had entertained the handsome

actress at suppers, which offered every luxury that the most perfect

table could supply Experience had made her acquainted with the flavour

of the finest claret--and that experience was renewed by the claret