For the rest I care not a jot." He went away, leaving me alone, and then all the sensations of the previous nights came back to me.

I remembered what the ghost was supposed to foretell, and the evil influence the dark pond was said to have.

I saw again the large red hand on the water's surface.

I recalled dimly the struggle, the fighting, the strange feeling I had as my senses began to leave me.

Could I have killed him?
If I did, I was guiltless of crime.