"Did you see any ghost last night?" he said to the first.
"No, sir, I did not," was the laconic reply.
"Did you see any ghost last night?" Captain Dawson asked, addressing the second man.
"No, sir, I did not."
In this way he questioned each man until he came to the ninth or tenth, I forget which, one of the two men whom the British officer was about to take away at the time we were intercepted, as I have told in a previous chapter. When the question was asked, the man raised his hand to his head in form of a salute, and replied,—
"I don't know, sir, but I thought I did."
"Well, tell me what it was that you thought you saw."