Autobiography and memoirs . -??? Z:^^^^^^^^^ 1876-80] FIRE AT INVERARAY 343 In his reply Professor Tyndall stated that theDuke was in all probability right in attributing thecause of the fire to a discharge of electricity, whichmight have proceeded from a cloud hovering over thecentral part of the castle. The Duke wrote to Mr. Gladstone a little later asfollows : The fire sometimes comes back upon me as a horridnightmare, because there is a wonderful chasm betweenthe actual result and that which might have been theresult. We were all sleeping soundly, with a ragingfire in the midst of us, goin
Autobiography and memoirs . -??? Z:^^^^^^^^^ 1876-80] FIRE AT INVERARAY 343 In his reply Professor Tyndall stated that theDuke was in all probability right in attributing thecause of the fire to a discharge of electricity, whichmight have proceeded from a cloud hovering over thecentral part of the castle. The Duke wrote to Mr. Gladstone a little later asfollows : The fire sometimes comes back upon me as a horridnightmare, because there is a wonderful chasm betweenthe actual result and that which might have been theresult. We were all sleeping soundly, with a ragingfire in the midst of us, going on for hours; and if thealarm had come twenty minutes later, the lives ofmany must have been lost. Not many minutes afterthe girls escaped, the galleries of the hall fell in, andif that had happened before they left their rooms allescape would have been cut off except by the win-dows, and, [alluding to several people in the castleat the time who were very helpless ] I dont seehow they could have been got out by ladd
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