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." 
Where was the fire last night?
Did it burn everything?
Who was eating out there last night?
With whom?
Who went to put out a lamp?
What did he find in the drawing-room?
Who recounted this tale to Old Sam?
Was any single thing saved from the blaze?
Isleworth Hall
"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." 
Yes
"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.
Lady Bellamy
"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
"Can't say, sir, but I did hear say how as Lady Bellamy was a-dining there last night along with the squire;
Footman
 and the footman he goes to put out the lamp
A roaring fiery furnace
 footman he goes to put out the lamp and finds the drawing-room a roaring fiery furnace
Arthur
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
A girl
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,