[The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Haunted Hotel CHAPTER VIII 9/25
Nothing to excite a suspicion of anything wrong has come to our knowledge. 'As to the departure of the lady's maid, we have seen the woman's receipt for her wages, in which it is expressly stated that she left Lady Montbarry's service because she disliked the Continent, and wished to get back to her own country.
This is not an uncommon result of taking English servants to foreign parts.
Lady Montbarry has informed us that she abstained from engaging another maid in consequence of the extreme dislike which his lordship expressed to having strangers in the house, in the state of his health at that time. 'The disappearance of the courier Ferrari is, in itself, unquestionably a suspicious circumstance.
Neither her ladyship nor the Baron can explain it; and no investigation that we could make has thrown the smallest light on this event, or has justified us in associating it, directly or indirectly, with the object of our inquiry.
We have even gone the length of examining the portmanteau which Ferrari left behind him.
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