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brandy- and- water ! ” I cried, and H. hastened to 
fetch the flask from our medicinal store. Our 
servant in tidying the apartment had ranged all 
bottles of the same size in a row. PL grasped 
one containing a yellowish fluid, and poured me 
out a draught. “ Drink it raw ; I am afraid for 
you,” he said. I swallowed it at one gulp : it 
tasted strange, but I was too tired to care. 
Presently PI. forced another draught upon me. 
It was an antidote, for the first had been from 
a bottle containing spirits of wine and arsenic, 
which had formed the death-potion of our col- 
lection of beetles. 
To his fatigue was now added a night of 
anxious vigil, and for me followed successive 
days of terrible retching and strong fever. 
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