"Come in here." One candle only was burning in the room.

I looked at her by the dim light.

My resolution to return to England instantly became one of the lost ideas of my life.
"Good God!" I exclaimed, "what has happened now ?" She handed me the paper which she had taken from the lawyer's hand.
The "copy" to which he had referred was a copy of the written confession of Silas Meadowcroft on his return to prison.

He accused his brother Ambrose of the murder of John Jago.

He declared on his oath that he had seen his brother Ambrose commit the crime.
In the popular phrase, I could "hardly believe my own eyes." I read the last sentences of the confession for the second time: "...I heard their voices at the lime-kiln.