"By heaven! are you mad, sir? What have you been doing? I never laid the
weight of my hand on Jacquelina in all my life, wild as she has driven
me at times. Explain your brutality, sir."
"It was to force from her hand a paper which she has swallowed," said
Dr. Grimshaw, with stern coldness regarding the group.
"Swallowed! swallowed!" shrieked Mrs. Waugh, rushing toward Jacquelina,
and seizing one of her arms, and gazing in her face, thinking only of
poisons and of Jacko's frequent threats of suicide. "Swallowed!
swallowed! Where did she get it? Who procured it for her? What was it?
Oh, run for the doctor, somebody. What are you all standing like you
were thunderstruck for? Dr. Grimshaw, start a boy on horseback
immediately for a physician. Tell him to tell the doctor to bring a
stomach pump with him. You had better go yourself. Oh, hasten; not a
single moment is to be lost. Jacquelina, my dear, do you begin to feel
sick? Do you feel a burning in your throat and stomach? Oh, my dear
child! how came you to do such a rash act?"
Jacko broke into a loud laugh.
"Oh! crazy! crazy! it is something that affects her brain she has taken.
Oh! Dr. Grimshaw, how can you have the heart to stand there and not go?
Probably opium.
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