“In the rolling and tossing of the journey there might easily be minor scarifications,” said Sedgwick.
“True. But, Frank, what did you suppose that sudden shift on the part of the officers of the law meant?”
“Perhaps that the body was not in fit condition to be viewed.”
“In that case what could they have done to make it more fit?”
“Nothing, I suppose. I didn’t consider that.”
“I rather opined,” said Lawyer Bain, “that some one had changed bodies on ’em.”
“That’s what made you so cussed curious, was it, Adam?” barked the sheriff.
“There was no exchange of bodies,” said Kent. “But there was a change in the body itself.”
“What kind of a change?” asked Sedgwick.
“Has it ever occurred to you to think that, after death, the hair grows fast?”