"You interviewed these witnesses, separately and collectively, on the very day that the other witness, Frost, laid an information against me before yourself as Justice of the Peace?"
"I said it was that day. You ask the same question again and again!"
The man was fuming, trembling, near to tears or curses of mortification and blind rage.
"I have but two more questions to ask you, and I am done," rejoined Carlton. "Did the witness Fuller tell you of the light in the church, and the witness Ivey of what he saw later on, during these conversations of the fatal eighteenth?"
"They did."
"And was this the first you had heard of those experiences?"
"It was."
"That is my last question, Sir Wilton Gleed."
The justices put none. Gleed glared at them as he left the box.
"I think," said he, "that this is the most scandalous incident—most disgraceful thing I ever heard of in my life!"