It seems as if nothing less would do so." "What do you mean?
Does not he know you ?" "I can scarcely tell.

I do not know why I should not tell you plainly the truth, which you will have to hear before you see him.

His mind is either completely gone, or terror and imprisonment have deadened it for the time.

The other men who have been working with him say that he was sane enough when he was sober up to the time of the murder.

Certainly he is not sane now.