It was Lige Willetts who had found it.

His horse was tethered to a fence near by, at the end of a lane through a cornfield.

Jared Wiley, the deputy, was talking to a group near the stain, explaining.
"You see them two must have knowed about the one-o'clock freight, and that it was to stop here to take on the empty lumber cars.

I don't know how they knowed it, but they did.

It was this way: when they dropped from the window, they beat through the storm, straight for this side-track.