No horse alive could keep its feet in such country." The three men rode some distance in silence.

Then the little man, who kept a few yards in front, drew up and said,-- "You say the warrant was not on Wilson's body when you searched it.

Is it likely that some of these dalesmen removed it before you came down ?" "Yes, one dalesman.

But that job must have been done when another bigger job was done.

It wasn't done afterwards.