“Yeh.”
“And later when I showed you the footprints at the scene of the struggle, you saw that they were not Mr. Sedgwick’s?”
“Yeh.”
“You examined the cliff for footprints. Do you think any one pushed or pursued the victim over the brink?”
“No.”
“Whose were the footprints, that you found, Jim?” demanded Alexander Blair.
The half-breed pointed, in silence, to Preston Jax.
“Of course. His and—and the other’s. But there were the marks of a third person, weren’t there?”
“No.”
“There must have been,” insisted Mr. Blair. “Are you positive?”