Considering the early hour at which the traveller was to start--Jessuron knew the hour--Cynthia might not have a chance to give the _medicine_? Or, frayed by contemplation of the fearful consequence, which she now knew would follow almost instantaneously upon the act, she might in the end shy from the dangerous duty? The intended victim might, in the meantime, have become suspicious of the mixtures prepared by the mulatta, and decline to drink the deadly draught?

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