CHAPTER LXI 

After throwing George Caresfoot into the bramble-bush, Arthur walked steadily back to the inn, where he arrived, quite composed in manner, at about half-past seven. Old Sam, the ostler, was in the yard, washing a trap. He went up to him, and asked when the next train started for London. 

"There is one as leaves Roxham at nine o'clock, sir, and an uncommon fast one, I'm told. But you bean't a-going yet, be you, sir?" 

"Yes, have the gig ready in time to catch the train." 

"Very good, sir. Been to the fire, I suppose sir?" he went on, dimly perceiving that Arthur's clothes were torn. "It were a fine place, it wore, and it did blaze right beautiful." 

"No; what fire?" 

"Bless me, sir, didn't you see it last night?--why, Isleworth Hall, to be sure. It wore burnt right out, and all as was in it." 

"Oh! How did it come to get burnt?" 

"Can't say, sir, but I did hear say how as Lady Bellamy was a-dining there last night along with the squire; the squire he went out somewhere, my lady she goes home, and the footman he goes to put out the lamp and finds the drawing-room a roaring fiery furnace, like as parson tells us on. But I don't know how that can be, for I heard how as the squire was a-dying, so 'taint likely that he was a-going out. But, lord, sir, folk in these parts do lie that uncommon, 'taint as it be when I was a boy. As like as no, he's no more dying than you are. Anyhow, sir, it all burned like tinder, and the only thing, so I'm told, as was saved was a naked stone statty of a girl with a chain round her wrists, as Jim Blakes, our constable, being in liquor, brought out in his arms, thinking how as it was alive, and tried to rewive it with cold water."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was the site of last night's fire?
2. Where was there a blaze last night?
3. In what location did a fire burn last night?
Q2:
1. Did the fire burn everything?
2. Was everything consumed by the fire?
3. Did the fire take everything?
Q3:
1. Who was eating at Isleworth Hall last night?
2. Who dined at Isleworth Hall last night?
3. Who had dinner at Isleworth Hall the evening last?
Q4:
1. Who was Lady Bellamy's dinner companion?
2. Who did Lady Bellamy dine with?
3. With whom did Lady Bellamy have dinner?
Q5:
1. Who went to extinguish a lamp?
2. Who went to turn off a lamp?
3. Who was going to make the gesture of putting out a lamp?
Q6:
1. What did the footman find in the drawing room?
2. What did the footman come across when he entered the drawing room?
3. What was the footman met with when he went into the drawing room?
Q7:
1. Who told the story to Old Sam?
2. Who did Old Sam learn of the tale from?
3. Who recounted the events to Old Sam?
Q8:
1. Did any single thing get saved from the fire?
2. Did any items make it out of the fire?
3. Were any objects rescued from the blaze?
