the search partys find by grant allen (excerpt) in this excerpt from the beckoning hand and other stories, the narrator, a surgeon, joins an arctic expedition to escape a broken engagement. one of the expeditions members is a man by the name of lemarchant, who quickly becomes one of the teams most despised members. to the narrators horror, he learns that lemarchant is now engaged to his former love. when lemarchant learns this, he sets in motion a plan that has a terrible consequence for both men. (1) presently, i heard a noise again, and woke up quietly, without starting, but just opened my eyes and peered about as well as the dim light of the little oil - lamp would allow me. (2) to my great surprise, i could make out somehow that lemarchant was meddling with the bottles in the medicine - chest... (3) at four i woke, as i always did, and proceeded to take one of my powders. curiously enough, before i tasted it, the grain appeared to me to be rather coarser and more granular than the quinine¹ i had originally put there. i took a pinch between my finger and select the correct text in the passage. which detail from the text confirms that the narrator is correct in suspecting lemarchant in poisoning him? (14)
ot a bit of it, lemarchant,\ i said, with some devilish malice; \ive given you one of my own packets, that was lying here beside my pillow.\ (15) he turned as white as a sheet the moment he heard that, and gasped out horribly, hat - that - why, that was arsenic!\ but he never explained in a single word how he knew it, or where it came from. i knew... (16) then i knew that i was really a murderer.

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the search partys find by grant allen (excerpt) in this excerpt from the beckoning hand and other stories, the narrator, a surgeon, joins an arctic expedition to escape a broken engagement. one of the expeditions members is a man by the name of lemarchant, who quickly becomes one of the teams most despised members. to the narrators horror, he learns that lemarchant is now engaged to his former love. when lemarchant learns this, he sets in motion a plan that has a terrible consequence for both men. (1) presently, i heard a noise again, and woke up quietly, without starting, but just opened my eyes and peered about as well as the dim light of the little oil - lamp would allow me. (2) to my great surprise, i could make out somehow that lemarchant was meddling with the bottles in the medicine - chest... (3) at four i woke, as i always did, and proceeded to take one of my powders. curiously enough, before i tasted it, the grain appeared to me to be rather coarser and more granular than the quinine¹ i had originally put there. i took a pinch between my finger and select the correct text in the passage. which detail from the text confirms that the narrator is correct in suspecting lemarchant in poisoning him? (14)
ot a bit of it, lemarchant,\ i said, with some devilish malice; \ive given you one of my own packets, that was lying here beside my pillow.\ (15) he turned as white as a sheet the moment he heard that, and gasped out horribly, 	hat - that - why, that was arsenic!\ but he never explained in a single word how he knew it, or where it came from. i knew... (16) then i knew that i was really a murderer.

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# Brief Explanations:
When the narrator tells Lemarchant he gave him one of his own packets, Lemarchant turns white and gasps that it was arsenic without explaining how he knew. This reaction strongly implies guilt.
# Answer:
(15) He turned as white as a sheet the moment he heard that, and gasped out horribly, "That—that—why, that was arsenic!" But he never explained in a single word how he knew it, or where it came from.

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