translation.ar: في أحسن اﻷحوال، اعتقد إنها هلوسة-- خدعه بصره أو سمعه، ربما أو ربما انقلب عقله عليه.
translation.en: At best, he thought, it had to have been a hallucination -- a trick of the eye or the ear, perhaps, or his own mind working against him.