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Some said it was a good spirit, come to the assistance of the

inmates; others, that it was the spirit of a wicked pilgrim, who

came at night to join such companions, and perform such deeds, as

he had been accustomed to while living; others, again, went so

far as to conjecture that it was one of these very robbers,

clothed like a pilgrim; so that Griso, with all his experience,

would have been at a loss to discover who it was, if he had

expected to acquire this information from others. But, as the

reader knows, that which was perplexity to them, was perfect

clearness to Griso. He was enabled, therefore, from these various

sources, to obtain a sufficiently distinct account for the ear of

Don Roderick.