As a quantity of Government property was burned, official inquiries were held.

The reports are published by Mr.Aksakoff.

The repeated verdict was that no suspicion attached to any subject of the Czar.
{205} The same freedom was taken, as has been said, with a lady of the most irreproachable character, a friend of the author, in a haunted house, of the usual sort, in Hammersmith, about 1876.
{206} Proceedings, S.P.R., vol.xii., p.

49.
{212} John Wesley, however, places Hetty as next in seniority to Mary or Molly.

We do not certainly know whether Hetty was a child, or a grown-up girl, but, as she always sat up till her father went to bed, the latter is the more probable opinion.