The Truth about Clement Ker; Being an Account of Some Curious Circumstances Connected with the Life and Death of the Late Sir Clement Ker, Bart., of Brae House, Peeblesshire Told by His Second Cousin, Geoffrey Ker, of London

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XI. DR. WAUCHOPE DISCOURSES UPON THE SILVER BOTTLE. VT-OU may be sure that I had not forgotten the -- mystery of that unlucky little silver bottle. I was up and dressed hours before Dr. Wauchope made his appearance in my room the next morning. I would scarce attend to his questions about how I felt, so eager was I to tax him with the fulfilment of his promise. But at the very first word I uttered on the subject, his round, rosy, clean-shaven face lost all its smiles. Mr. Ker, he began, and speaking with a gravity most unusual, before we enter upon the explanations which, I own, I have committed myself to make, will you allow me to ask you, in my turn, one pertinent question? Or, seeing the difference of age and experience between us, shall I put it in the form of a suggestion to you, a piece of advice? Most assuredly, doctor, I said promptly, but I wondered not a little at his tone. Then, concerning this same bottle ? he produced it out of his pocket, neatly wrapped up in white paper and sealed at both ends like a chemist's prescription, and held it up before me as he spoke ? if I were to undertake to assure you that the knowledge of its contents was in no way a concern of your own, that it could not possibly benefit you in any degree to hear further about it, and might, on the contrary, cause you some regret ? some considerable regret ? taking these things into consideration, my dear Mr. Geoffrey, wilt- you not authorize me to replace this small packet in my pocket (here he waved it in the air, and then deposited it on the mantelpiece at his elbow), dismissing the entire . question from your own mind, and trusting to my discretion, to my tact, that it shall be restored at a proper time, and under proper circumstances, to its owner? D...

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