e of his death. We found nothing
to justify suspicion.

'As to his lordship's retired way of life, we have conversed on the
subject with the consul and the banker--the only two strangers who held
any communication with him. He called once at the bank to obtain money
on his letter of credit, and excused himself from accepting an
invitation to visit the banker at his private residence, on the ground
of delicate health. His lordship wrote to the same effect on sending
his card to the consul, to excuse himself from personally returning
that gentleman's visit to the palace. We have seen the letter, and we
beg to offer the following copy of it. "Many years passed in India
have injured my constitution. I have ceased to go into society; the
one occupation of my life now is the study of Oriental literature. The
air of Italy is better for me than the air of England, or I should
never have left home. Pray accept the apologies of a student and an
invalid. The active part of my life is at an end." The self-seclusion
of his lordship seems to us to be explained in these brief lines. We
have not, however, on that account spared our inquiries in other
directions. 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. It contains nothing but clothes and linen--no money, and not even
a scrap of paper in the pockets of the clothes. The portmanteau
remains in charge of the police.

'We have also found opportunities of speaking privately to the old
woman who attends to the rooms o