"I bear in remembrance," said the magistrate, "that you would not subscribe to the general belief in the hunchback's guilt."
"Nor do I now," said Father Daniel.
"And you," said the magistrate, turning to Gabriel Carew, "do you believe Hartog to be guilty?"
"I do not," replied Carew.
"Do your suspicions point elsewhere?" asked the magistrate.
"This is not the time or place," said Carew, "for me to give expression to any suspicion I may entertain. The first thing to be settled is Hartog's complicity in this murder."
"True," said the magistrate.
"Father Daniel believes," continued Carew, "that Eric was murdered to-day, within the last hour or two. That is not my belief."
"The doctors will decide that," said the magistrate. "If the deed was not, in your opinion, perpetrated within the last few hours, when do you suppose it was done?"
"Last night," Carew replied.