America's First Female Serial Killer by Mary Kay McBrayer

Author:Mary Kay McBrayer [McBrayer, Mary Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642502084
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2020-03-18T15:08:44+00:00

At the end of the afternoon, the women returned to the house Jane let, and Elizabeth said she felt drained from the sun, overheated. “I think I’ll lie down before supper. Bring up some water for me?” she asked, and then with a broad smile said, “Please. If you don’t mind.” Jane obliged, pouring the mineral water over three tablets of strychnine and stirring it in a clean glass before carrying it up on a tray for her foster sister. Elizabeth was relieved that the water was in a glass. “It’s bitter,” she said. “Is that because of the minerals?”

Jane said that it was.

“Isn’t it nice to feel so free?” she said, handing the glass back to Jane.

Jane did not reply. Rather, she set the glass on the sideboard and sat in the chair next to the bed. Elizabeth did not ask why she did this because she was glad of her company. Elizabeth kept talking about how glad she felt to be with Jane and how this sisterliness was what she had always wanted between them. She wished she had been strong enough in those days of Jane’s childhood to stand up to her mother, to live with Oramel alone so that Jane could have worked her indenture as the asylum intended it—or maybe she could have convinced Oramel just to adopt Jane. Her hindsight was clear, of course, but wouldn’t it have been nice if Jane had been adopted, so that she could have been loved as she deserved, as every child deserves. But naturally, by the time she began talking about Jane instead of herself, Elizabeth was no longer speaking English words. She babbled, and then shortly, she was distracted by the texture of the matelassé bedspread, and she picked at it until Jane walked back to the bed and hovered, watching as Elizabeth’s eyes darted from Jane to things behind her that did not exist. She moved her mouth in spasms, no sounds emitting from it at all anymore, as if trying to warn Jane of something.

What is it she sees? Jane wondered for a moment. What is it that she thinks she sees? She watched patiently until Elizabeth threw back her head, and then Jane threw back the bedspread.

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