“This event about the ring.”
“What has that to do with it? How do you even know that it was taken on that night?”
“I do not know; for till this morning I had not opened the place where it lay: I only suspect.”
“I am a magistrate, Mr. Sutherland: I would rather not be prejudiced by suspicions.”
“The person to whom my suspicions refer, is beyond your jurisdiction, Mr. Arnold.”
“I do not understand you.”
“I will explain myself.”
Hugh gave Mr. Arnold a hurried yet circumstantial sketch of the apparition he believed he had seen.
“What am I to judge from all this?” asked he, coldly, almost contemptuously.
“I have told you the facts; of course I must leave the conclusions to yourself, Mr. Arnold; but I confess, for my part, that any disbelief I had in apparitions is almost entirely removed since—”