"Well, in the first place, he skipped the town just before the body of the woman was found. He was seen to ride out of town along the road on which her house stood."
"Is that all the evidence you have against him?"
"No; he was seen coming out of the house about three hours before he was seen leaving town."
"H'm! Is that all?"
"It comes pretty near enough. But, besides that, it was known that the woman, who was young and beautiful, had recently received a lot of money as her share in a mine, and that the money had been taken to her that morning by one of her partners."
"And it is believed that the young fellow you call Fancy Farnsworth killed the woman for her money?"
"Sure."
"In what shape was the money? Currency, gold dust, ingots, or gold coins?"
"It was in ingots."
"Anybody know how much of it there was?"