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But we remedied this by means of composing draughts prescribed for that purpose by the doctor . `` On the morning of the 21st , at a few minutes past six , I got my first alarm that something was going wrong with Mrs. Macallan . `` I was awoke at the time I have mentioned by the ringing of the hand-bell which she kept on her bed-table . Let me say for myself that I had only fallen asleep on the sofa in the bedroom at past two in the morning from sheer fatigue . Mrs. Macallan was then awake . She was in one of her bad humors with me . I had tried to prevail on her to let me remove her dressing-case from her bed-table , after she had used it in making her toilet for the night .