The Haunted Hotel - Second Part, Ch VIII - Wilkie Collins

The Haunted Hotel - Second Part, Ch VII

Wilkie Collins

On the 14th the Directors and their legal advisers met for the reading of the report, with closed doors. These were the terms in which the Commissioners related the results of their inquiry: 'Private and confidential.

'We have the honour to inform our Directors that we arrived in Venice on December 6, 1860. On the same day we proceeded to the palace inhabited by Lord Montbarry at the time of his last illness and death.