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Some hours later, when Doctor Peters had returned from attending his case, the squire resumed the inquiry and at once called on Maria to make her proffered statement.
"If you please, sir," said the girl, "not long after the balloon ascended by moonlight, and the gentleman was shot at, a little man came to Doctor Peters's house to ask for the medicine that was made up for him. I was not aware that anything had been prepared for him, and while I was asking a question I noticed that he held a handkerchief in his hand which smelt of something strong. I just recollect his going upstairs, and then I must have become insensible. When I came to he had disappeared and the front door was closed. I did not say anything to the doctor about it, as I thought he might say I was hysterical and that my head was full of fancies, but when I heard the evidence at the last meeting, I thought it my duty to state what had happened."