Were there others whom you cannot swear to ?" The butler darted a quick glance at the other.
"Ye ken, sir," he said, "that the Hume-Frazers are mixed up wi' an auld Scoatch hoose ?" "Yes." "Weel, sir, there's things that happen in this world which no man can explain.

Five are dead, and five had to die by violent means.

Who arranged that ?" "Neither you nor I can tell." "That's right, sir.

I know that Mr.David or Mr.Robert never lifted a hand against their cousin, yet, unless the Lord blinded my auld een, I saw ane or ither in the avenue when I tried to lift Sir Alan frae the groond." "You said nothing of this at the time ?" "Would ye hae me speak o' wraiths to a Suffolk jury, Mr.Brett?
I saw no mortal man.

'Twas a ghaist for sure, an' if I had gone into the box to talk of such things they wad hae discredited my evidence about Mr.David.
I might hae hanged him instead o' savin' him." "Suppose I tell you that the man you saw was no ghost, but real flesh and blood, a Japanese descendant of the David Hume who fought and killed the first Sir Alan in 1763, what would you say ?" "I would say, sir, that it had to be, were it ever so strange." "Have you ever, in gossip about family records, heard anything of the fate of the David Hume I have just mentioned." "Only this, sir.