The Lonely Bride by Fred M. White

It was the coroner who broke the silence at length. He was heard to reiterate his former statement that all this was irregular in the extreme, but at the same time it seemed to him that it would be the wisest course to call General Graham as a witness. There was no further questions to be put to Grace, so that she was allowed to sink back into her chair trembling from head to foot, and faint with the ordeal through which she had just gone. Someone handed her a glass of water, which she gulped down eagerly. And then she became conscious that General Graham was speaking.

It was not much that he had to say; he merely reiterated his previous declaration that he had finished his bottle of morphia on the previous afternoon.