I accused him, gentlemen, of being connected with this ghost only to-day, and he flushed guiltily and was silent.

He looked like a Judas who betrayed his master." "Quietly, please," I replied.

"You did come to me this morning with some foolish jargon about my being connected with last night's affair, but I was so surprised by the absurdity and foolishness of such a thing, that I could not answer you before you ran away." "You hear ?" shrieked the Egyptian.

"So surprised, was he?
If he was, it was because I had found him out." "This man is mad," I said.

"Surely he ought to be shut up." "Mad, am I ?" he shrieked.