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Mrs. Dallas was a large, fat and eminently lazy woman, who passed most of her time in knitting or sleeping or eating. Her husband had died before she had come to England, and it was the desire to preserve her daughter's health which had brought her so far from the sun-baked islands which her soul loved. "By no means; and Dido manufactured the poison which was used." The public prosecutor said that he asserted no more than he could prove to their lordships and the gentlemen of the jury. The prisoner had killed Mr. Alymer, and it was for this offense that he stood in yonder dock. As regards the theft of the body---.
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"And in accusing Battersea I go only on your own premises. You said that the man who stole the devil-stick, who had it in his possession, must be the guilty person. You see the devil-stick there." She pointed to the table. "Well, I obtained that from Battersea." "There," said Jen, pointing to the inanimate form of his old servant. "He is asleep or dead." "I haven't been asked for a speech," she began clearly. "But I do want to say a word or two, if you'll let me." "On the night that the body was stolen," continued Jen, deliberately, "Jaggard was drugged.".
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