"Yes; her partner, Billy Slocum, was at the hotel, intendin' to go back to the mine to-day, and I went to see him."
"And did he give you any idea of how much the gold weighed?"
"Yes, it weighed about thirty pounds. Billy brought it in on his saddle, and he said it weighed quite considerable."
"But Farnsworth, as you call him, had nothing of the sort when he arrived here."
"That may be. He'd be too foxy to do that. He's cached it somewhere in the mountains, most likely."
"How was the woman killed?"
"She was strangled by a cord."
"What was her name?"
"Helen Mowbray."
"What sort of a woman was she?"