And
how is it, how can it be, that we again see him here, walking arm
in arm with his murderer?"
"The thing cannot be, Mrs. Logan. It is a phantasy of our
disturbed imaginations, therefore let us compose ourselves till we
investigate this matter farther."
"It cannot be in nature, that is quite clear," said Mrs. Logan. "Yet
how it should be that I should think so--I who knew and nursed
him from his infancy--there lies the paradox. As you said once
before, we have nothing but our senses to depend on, and, if you
and I believe that we see a person, why, we do see him. Whose
word, or whose reasoning can convince us against our own
senses? We will disguise ourselves as poor women selling a few
country wares, and we will go up to the Hall, and see what is to
see, and hear what we can hear, for this is a weighty business in
which we are engaged, namely, to turn the vengeance of the law
upon an unnatural monster; and we will further learn, if we can,
who this is that accompanies him."
Mrs. Calvert acquiesced, and the two dames took their way to
Dalcastle, with baskets well furnished with trifles. They did not
take the common path from the village, but went about, and
approached the mansion by a different way.
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