“Without attempting to explain it, I bethought me of what was best to be done.
“To stay by the dead body could serve no purpose. To bury it would have been equally idle.
“Then I thought of galloping back to the Fort, and getting assistance to carry it to Casa del Corvo.
“But if I left it in the chapparal, the coyotés might discover it; and both they and the buzzards would be at it before we could get back. Already the vultures were above—taking their early flight. They appeared to have espied it.
“Mutilated as was the young man’s form, I could not think of leaving it, to be made still more so. I thought of the tender eyes that must soon behold it—in tears.”
Chapter Ninety Four.
The Mystery Made Clear.
The accused pauses in his recital. No one offers any observation—either to interrupt, or hurry him on.