A minute portion of this drug, which is dangerous only in large quantities, was found in the stomach of the deceased; but not enough to cause serious trouble, and she died, as we had already decided, from the effect of the murderous clutch upon her throat.

But," he went on sternly, as young Cumberland moved, and showed signs of breaking in with one of his violent invectives against the supposed assassin, "I made another discovery of still greater purport.

When we lifted the body out of its resting-place, something beside withered flowers slid from her breast and fell at our feet.

The ring, gentlemen--the ring which Ranelagh says was missing from her hand when he came upon her, and which certainly was not on her finger when she was laid in the casket,--rolled to the floor when we moved her.

Here it is; there is one person here, at least, who can identify it.