Jane Austen Mysteries 10 Jane And the Madness of Lord Byron
“The girl thought it odd that Lord Byron's door should be slightly ajar, and yet no sound of movement be audible within," he said. "The maid hesitated to disturb his lordship, because of course it is well known the man is a poet, and has been engaged in writing out cantos of his latest work--""He is writing here in Brighton?" I said numbly."Apparently so. At all events, neither Byron nor his traps were to be found in the bedchamber; but the unfortunate Miss Twining--"It was whispered at Raggett'...s that the girl was still clothed in the white muslin gown she had worn at the Assembly. There were marks of brutality at her throat, as tho' she had been forcibly held under water--and she had died in the sea, for the dried stains of salt water were everywhere upon her person."The chambermaid put it about that her eyes were wide open," Henry said in a subdued tone, "and that such a look of terror as lingered in them, she hoped never to witness again.""But the hammock, Henry?" I knew of such things from my Naval brothers; when a sailor died, his sleeping hammock served as shroud--sewn up around him, before burial at sea.MoreLess
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