ld not be likely to succeed--confined himself, in
cross-examination, to two significant questions.

"In speaking to you of the defects in her complexion," he said, "did
your daughter-in-law refer in any way to the use of arsenic as a
remedy?"

The answer to this was, "No."

The Lord Advocate proceeded:

"Did you yourself ever recommend arsenic, or mention it casually, in the
course of the private conversations which you have described?"

The answer to this was, "Never."

The Lord Advocate resumed his seat. Mrs. Macallan the elder withdrew.

An interest of a new kind was excited by the appearance of the next
witness. This was no less a person than Mrs. Beauly herself. The Report
describes her as a remarkably attractive person; modest and lady-like
in her manner, and, to all appearance, feeling sensitively the public
position in which she was placed.

The first portion of her evidence was almost a recapitulation of the
evidence given by the prisoner's mother--with this difference, that Mrs.
Beauly had been actually questioned by the deceased lady on the subject
of cosmetic applications to the complexion. Mrs. Eustace Macallan had
complimented her on the beauty of her complexion, and had asked what
artificial means she used to keep it in such good order. Using no
artificial means, and knowing nothing whatever of cosmetics, Mrs. Beauly
had resented the question, and a temporary coolness between the two
ladies had been the result.

Interrogated as to her relations with the prisoner, Mrs. Beauly
indignantly denied that she or Mr. Macallan had ever given the deceased
lady the slightest cause for jealousy. It was impossible for Mrs.
Beauly to leave Scotland, after visiting at the houses of her cousin's
neighbors, without also visiting at her cousin's house. To take any
other course would have been an act of downright rudeness, and would
have excited remark. She did not deny that Mr. Macallan had admired her
in the days when they were both single people. But there was no further
expression of that feeling when she had married another man, and when
he had married another woman. From that time their intercourse was
the innocent intercourse of a brother and sister. Mr. Macallan was a
gentleman: he knew what was due to his wife and to Mrs. Beauly--she
would not have entered the house if experience had not satisfied her of
that. As for the evidence of the under-gardener, it was little better
than pure invention. The greate