"Mose was not acting; he saw something that frightened him half out of his senses.

And that something was not Radnor masquerading as a ghost, for Radnor was out of the house when the robbery took place." "Not necessarily.

The robbery took place early in the evening before all this rumpus occurred.

Even if Mose did see a ghost, the ghost had nothing to do with it." "You have absolutely no proof of that; it is nothing but surmise." Clancy smiled with an air of patient tolerance.
"How about the letter ?" he inquired.

"How do you explain that ?" "I don't explain it; it is none of my business.