“You say,” he resumed, after a pause, “that the person referred to is dead?”
“Stenson affirms that it is so.”
“And you?”
“I doubt it.”
“Perhaps Christian Waldo knows?”
“He knows nothing at all about it.”
“You are certain of that?”
“I am certain.”
“But you are trying to give me to understand that this person is the same with—”
“I did not say that, your lordship.”