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This
personal
experience
of
the
new
hotel
was
too
extraordinary
to
be
passed
over
in
silence
.
Henry
mentioned
it
to
his
friends
in
the
public
room
,
in
the
hearing
of
the
manager
.
The
manager
,
naturally
zealous
in
defence
of
the
hotel
,
was
a
little
hurt
at
the
implied
reflection
cast
on
Number
Fourteen
.
He
invited
the
travellers
present
to
judge
for
themselves
whether
Mr
.
Westwick
’
s
bedroom
was
to
blame
for
Mr
.
Westwick
’
s
sleepless
nights
;
and
he
especially
appealed
to
a
grey
-
headed
gentleman
,
a
guest
at
the
breakfast
-
table
of
an
English
traveller
,
to
take
the
lead
in
the
investigation
.
’
This
is
Doctor
Bruno
,
our
first
physician
in
Venice
,
’
he
explained
.
’
I
appeal
to
him
to
say
if
there
are
any
unhealthy
influences
in
Mr
.
Westwick
’
s
room
.
’
Introduced
to
Number
Fourteen
,
the
doctor
looked
round
him
with
a
certain
appearance
of
interest
which
was
noticed
by
everyone
present
.
’
The
last
time
I
was
in
this
room
,
’
he
said
,
’
was
on
a
melancholy
occasion
.
It
was
before
the
palace
was
changed
into
an
hotel
.
I
was
in
professional
attendance
on
an
English
nobleman
who
died
here
.
’
One
of
the
persons
present
inquired
the
name
of
the
nobleman
.
Doctor
Bruno
answered
(
without
the
slightest
suspicion
that
he
was
speaking
before
a
brother
of
the
dead
man
)
,
’
Lord
Montbarry
.
’
Henry
quietly
left
the
room
,
without
saying
a
word
to
anybody
.
He
was
not
,
in
any
sense
of
the
term
,
a
superstitious
man
.
But
he
felt
,
nevertheless
,
an
insurmountable
reluctance
to
remaining
in
the
hotel
.
He
decided
on
leaving
Venice
.
To
ask
for
another
room
would
be
,
as
he
could
plainly
see
,
an
offence
in
the
eyes
of
the
manager
.
To
remove
to
another
hotel
,
would
be
to
openly
abandon
an
establishment
in
the
success
of
which
he
had
a
pecuniary
interest
.
Leaving
a
note
for
Arthur
Barville
,
on
his
arrival
in
Venice
,
in
which
he
merely
mentioned
that
he
had
gone
to
look
at
the
Italian
lakes
,
and
that
a
line
addressed
to
his
hotel
at
Milan
would
bring
him
back
again
,
he
took
the
afternoon
train
to
Padua
—
and
dined
with
his
usual
appetite
,
and
slept
as
well
as
ever
that
night
.
The
next
day
,
a
gentleman
and
his
wife
(
perfect
strangers
to
the
Montbarry
family
)
,
returning
to
England
by
way
of
Venice
,
arrived
at
the
hotel
and
occupied
Number
Fourteen
.
Still
mindful
of
the
slur
that
had
been
cast
on
one
of
his
best
bedchambers
,
the
manager
took
occasion
to
ask
the
travellers
the
next
morning
how
they
liked
their
room
.
They
left
him
to
judge
for
himself
how
well
they
were
satisfied
,
by
remaining
a
day
longer
in
Venice
than
they
had
originally
planned
to
do
,
solely
for
the
purpose
of
enjoying
the
excellent
accommodation
offered
to
them
by
the
new
hotel
.
’
We
have
met
with
nothing
like
it
in
Italy
,
’
they
said
;
’
you
may
rely
on
our
recommending
you
to
all
our
friends
.
’
On
the
day
when
Number
Fourteen
was
again
vacant
,
an
English
lady
travelling
alone
with
her
maid
arrived
at
the
hotel
,
saw
the
room
,
and
at
once
engaged
it
.
The
lady
was
Mrs
.
Norbury
.
She
had
left
Francis
Westwick
at
Milan
,
occupied
in
negotiating
for
the
appearance
at
his
theatre
of
the
new
dancer
at
the
Scala
.
Not
having
heard
to
the
contrary
,
Mrs
.
Norbury
supposed
that
Arthur
Barville
and
his
wife
had
already
arrived
at
Venice
.
She
was
more
interested
in
meeting
the
young
married
couple
than
in
awaiting
the
result
of
the
hard
bargaining
which
delayed
the
engagement
of
the
new
dancer
;
and
she
volunteered
to
make
her
brother
’
s
apologies
,
if
his
theatrical
business
caused
him
to
be
late
in
keeping
his
appointment
at
the
honeymoon
festival
.
Mrs
.
Norbury
’
s
experience
of
Number
Fourteen
differed
entirely
from
her
brother
Henry
’
s
experience
of
the
room
.
