I was in such a temper when I left that I didn't think of putting their two stories together; but going over the whole thing this afternoon in my mind it struck me as rather peculiar that they should both have hit on such a grotesque sort of a lie, if it was a lie." "Surely you don't think that Mr.Meldon--he's rather eccentric, I know, but I can scarcely believe that he'd--" "I'm not at all sure what I ought to think.

It seems unlikely that any clergyman, unless he is quite mad, and you say he's not mad--" "No; he's not mad.

He's peculiar.

But he is certainly not mad.

Major Kent has the highest opinion of him, and Major Kent is quite sane." The judge threw the end of his cigar into the fire and sat silent for a minute or two.