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 mainder of what I inadvertently had swallowed.

The conclusions I deduced from that discovery were of a most alarming nature. It was evident that the agent of the authors of that atrocious deed must be one of our servants, and at the same time have few accomplices, or none at all. My servants had, however, been employed very little at table; those of the Count having waited upon us from the moment he had joined our company. I had, besides, suspected two of his people for some time; for these fellows were of such an enormous and unnatural stupidity, that I could not conceive how the Count could keep them in his service. Being, however, unwilling to throw an odium upon an innocent person, I resolved to conceal that incident and my suppositions from my friend, and only to watch them with the greatest vigilance. My blood being still in a violent fermentation, I mixed some lemon juice with wine and water,