The two clergymen and the Board are quite content with Dr. Ament’s
answers upon the two points.
Upon the first point of the two, my own viewpoint may be indicated by a
question:
_Did Dr. Ament collect from B (whether by compulsion or simple demand)
even so much as a penny in payment for murders or depredations, without
knowing, beyond question, that B, and not another, committed the murders
or the depredations?_
Or, in other words:
_Did Dr. Ament ever, by chance or through ignorance, make the innocent
pay the debts of the guilty?_
In the article entitled “To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” I put
forward that point in a paragraph taken from Macallum’s (imaginary)
“History”: