What this inquest will bring forth, I do not know, but as sworn and true members of the coroner's jury, I charge and command you in the great name of the sovereign State of Colorado, to do your full duty in arriving at your verdict." The jury, half risen from its chair, some with their left hands held high above them, some with their right, swore in mumbling tones to do their duty, whatever that might be.

The coroner surveyed the assemblage.
"First witness," he called out; "Harry Harkins!" Harry went forward, clumsily seeking the witness chair.

A moment later he had been sworn, and in five minutes more, he was back beside Fairchild, staring in a relieved manner about him.

He had been questioned regarding nothing more than the mere finding of the body, the identification by means of the watch, and the notification of the coroner.

Fairchild was called, to suffer no more from the queries of the investigator than Harry.