118/119 The other three sons of the old Rajah are dead. The actual perpetrators of the murder were never punished or discovered. Mrs.Ravenscroft afterwards became united in marriage to the Resident at the time, Mr.Mordaunt Ricketts, and still lives. Her child, a boy, was drowned at the Lucknow Residency some time after his mother's marriage with the Resident. He had been shut up by his mother in a bathing-room for some fault; and, looking into a bathing- tub at his image in the water, he lost his balance, fell in, and was drowned. |