“Yes, sir. Both of them.”
“What was the occasion?”
“I got a call to come to the Caves of Perama. A woman had been lost in there, and
when the search party finally found her, she was in a state of shock.”
“Had she been hurt physically?”
“Yes. There were multiple contusions. Her hands and arms and cheeks had been
badly scraped on the rocks. She had fallen down and hit her head, and I diagnosed a
probable concussion. I immediately gave her a shot of morphine for the pain and ordered
them to take her to the local hospital.”
“And is that where she went?”
“No, sir.”
“Would you tell the jury why not?”
“At her husband’s insistence she was taken back to their bungalow at the Palace
Hotel.”
“Did that strike you as peculiar, Doctor?”
“He said he wanted to look after her himself.”
“So Mrs. Douglas was taken back to her hotel. Did you accompany her there?”
“Yes. I insisted on going back to her bungalow with her. I wanted to be at her bedside
when she awakened.”
“And were you there when she awakened?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Did Mrs. Douglas say anything to you?”
“She did.”
“Would you tell the Court what she said.”
“She told me that her husband had tried to murder her.”
It was a full five minutes before they could quiet the uproar in the courtroom, and it
was not until the President threatened to clear the room that the hubbub finally subsided.
Napoleon Chotas had walked over to the defendant’s box and was holding a hurried
conference with Noelle Page. For the first time she seemed upset. Demonides was going
on with the questioning.
“Doctor, you said in your testimony that Mrs. Douglas was in shock. In your
professional opinion was she lucid when she told you that her husband tried to murder
her?”
“Yes, sir. I had already given her one sedative at the caves, and she was relatively
calm. However when I told her I was going to give her another sedative, she became