"Why don't you arrest him ?" The sheriff made a gesture of disdain.
"That's nonsense.

Everyone in the county knows Cat-Eye Mose.

He wouldn't hurt a fly.

If he was present at the time of the crime it was to help his master, and the man who killed Colonel Gaylord killed him too.

I've known him all my life and I can swear he's innocent." "You've known Radnor all your life," I returned bitterly.
"Yes," he said, "I have--and Jefferson Gaylord, too." I rode on in silence and I do not think I ever hated anyone as, for the moment, I hated the man beside me.