THE PRESIDENT. Why did you say yesterday that nothing was ever found in your luggage? HELENE. I didn't remember. THE PRESIDENT. What were you doing with the saffron? Wasn't it in your possession during the time you were in Seglien? HELENE. I was taking it for my blood. THE PRESIDENT. And the white powder--did it also come from Seglien? HELENE [energetically]. Never have I had white powder in my luggage! Never have I seen arsenic! Never has anyone spoken to me of arsenic! Upon this the President rightly reminded her that she had said only that morning that her aunt had talked to her of arsenic at Seglien, and had warned her of its lethal qualities. "You deny the existence of that white powder," said the President, "because you know it was poison. You put it away from you with horror!" The accused several times tried to answer this charge, but failed. Her face was beaded with moisture. THE PRESIDENT. Had you or had you not any white powder at Losmine? HELENE. I can't say if I still had fever there. THE PRESIDENT. What was that powder? When did you first have it? HELENE. I had taken it at Locmine. Somebody gave it to me for two sous. THE PRESIDENT. Why didn t you say so at the beginning, instead of waiting until you are confounded by the witness? [To Dr Toussaint] What would the powder be, monsieur? What powder would one prescribe for fever? DR TOUSSAINT. Sulphate of quinine; but that's not what it was. Questioned by the advocate for the defence, the witness said he would not affirm that the powder he saw was arsenic. His present opinion, however, was that his father and sister had died from injections of arsenic in small doses. A witness from Locmine spoke of her sister's two children becoming ill after taking chocolate prepared by the accused. The latter told her that a mob had followed her in the street, accusing her of the deaths of those she had been servant to. Then came one of those curious samples of 'what the soldier said' that are so often admitted in French criminal trials as evidence. Louise Clocher said she had seen Helene on the road between Auray and Lorient in the company of a soldier. When she told some one of it people said, "That wasn't a soldier! It was the devil you saw following her!" One rather sympathizes with Helene in her protest against this testimony.