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Now, go away
and do not torment me so."
Grey knew there was nothing there, knew that the spirits of the
departed do not come back again, but he was not in a frame of mind to
reason clearly upon anything. He only knew how wretched he was, and that
after his promise to redress the dead man's wrongs he grew calmer and
more quiet, though there was still the terrible pain and disappointment
in his heart, especially when he thought of his Aunt Hannah, whom he had
held so high, and whom he now felt he had loved and revered more than
any other person.
Remembering all the past, which at times had puzzled him, and which he
now understood, he was certain that she had known from the first, and so
was an accomplice. Possibly the law would not touch her, he reasoned, as
he tried to fancy what might have been had this thing been known to the
public; but he remembered having heard of a case which happened in an
adjoining town many years before, where, at the instigation of his wife,
a man was killed and thrown into his own well.


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