He had sworn that he had seen Nokes drag his lighted torch along the ground; he had also seen other horsemen--two or three, as he thought--but could not identify them.
Jacko's deposition was also taken as to the man who had been heard and seen in the wool-shed at night.

Jacko was ready to swear point-blank that the man was Nokes.

The policemen suggested that, as the night was dark, Jacko might as well allow a shade of doubt to appear, thinking that the shade of doubt would add strength to the evidence.

But Jacko was not going to be taught what sort of oath he should swear.
"My word!" he said.

"Didn't I see his leg move?
You go away." Armed with these depositions, the two constables went on to Boolabong in search of Nokes, and of Nokes only, much to the chagrin of Harry, who declared that the police would never really bestir themselves in a squatter's cause.