ruddle

However, Ruddle promised to call on the old gentleman, whose name was Bligh, and whose house was Botathan.

They began at once to importune Ruddle about the interview and to pass remarks on the boy, who fled from them to his own room.

As Mr. Robbins says: "The completeness of the body of proof of the Ruddle authorship leaves nothing therefore to be desired."

Parson Ruddle does not give the Christian name of the boy who saw the ghost, and we are thrown into perplexity at once.