Katherine answered:
"They've all come because I thought I saw you dead, lying in the old room."
"We all saw," Bobby cried angrily, and Paredes nodded.
Blackburn shrank away from them.
The three men descended the stairs. Half way down they stopped.
"Who is that?" Robinson cried.
Graham's face whitened. He braced himself against the banister.
"Next time, Mr. District Attorney," Paredes said, "you'll believe me when I say the court is full of ghosts. He walked in from the court. I tell you they found him in the court."
Silas Blackburn's voice rose, shrill and angry:
"What's the matter with you all? Why do you talk of ghosts and my being dead? Haven't I a right to come in my own house? You all act as if you were afraid of me."