It was left by Marty, I think, when she came this morning." Grace turned her hot eyes upon what Grammer held up.

It was the phial left at the hut by her husband when he had begged her to take some drops of its contents if she wished to preserve herself from falling a victim to the malady which had pulled down Winterborne.

She examined it as well as she could.

The liquid was of an opaline hue, and bore a label with an inscription in Italian.

He had probably got it in his wanderings abroad.