So
many people have come in and talked, that it has enlivened her.'
'And how is the boy?'
'A little better, Martha heard; but he keeps on talking of Diego, and
seems not to care about any one else.'
'No wonder. His father must be an unmitigated brute,' said Felix. 'He
came to the inquest, and talked just as if it had been an old
Newfoundland dog; I really think he cared rather less than if it had
been.'
Tell us about the inquest, Felix,' said Lance. 'I wish they'd have
wanted me there.'
'I don't see why, Lance,' said Felix gravely; 'it was a terrible
thing to see poor Mr. Jones hardly able to speak for grief, and the
mother of that poor young nurse went on sobbing as if her heart was
breaking.'
'Nobody knows the cause of the fire, do they?' asked Cherry.
'Lady Price said it was the gas.'
'No; no one knows. Way, the waiter, saw a glare under the door of the
great assembly-room as he was going up very late to bed, and the
instant he opened the door the flame seemed to rush out at him. I
suppose a draught was all it wanted. He saw this poor Diego safe
downstairs once, but he must have gone back to save his young master,
and got cut off in coming back.
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