"What do you mean?"
Lowell was conscious that she was watching him narrowly.
"I mean that I don't believe Bill Talpers had anything to do with murdering that man on the Dollar Sign road!"
CHAPTER XV
"There's one thing sure in all cases of crime: If people would only depend more on Nature and less on themselves, they'd get results sooner."
Lowell and his chief clerk were finishing one of their regular evening discussions of the crime which most people were forgetting, but which still occupied the Indian agent's mind to the complete exclusion of all reservation business.
"What do you mean?" asked Rogers, from behind smoke clouds.
"Just the fact that, if we can only find it, Nature has tagged every crime in a way that makes it possible to get an answer."
"But there are lots of crimes in which no manifestation of Nature is possible."