Fred Thurman had been known to every one of them.

Some one had spread a piece of canvas over the corpse, and Swan did not go very near.

The blaze-faced horse had been led farther away and tied to a cottonwood, where some one had thrown down a bundle of hay.

The Sawtooth country was rather punctilious in its duty toward the law, and it was generally believed that the coroner would want to see the horse that had caused the tragedy.
Half an hour after Swan arrived, the coroner came in a machine, and with him came the sheriff.

The coroner, an important little man, examined the body, the horse and the saddle, and there was the usual formula of swearing in a jury.