" He removed the cigar from his
mouth, gazed at the wetted end, waited a moment for the young man to
comment, then replaced it, and resumed. "And fourth," he remarked
closing his fist so that all fingers were concealed. There he stopped
until Bob was fairly compelled to start him on again.
"And fourth----" he suggested, therefore.
"Fourth," rapped out Oldham, briskly, "you injure George Pollock."
"George Pollock!" echoed Bob, trying vainly to throw a tone of ingenuous
surprise into his voice.
"Certainly; George Pollock," repeated Oldham. "I arrived in Sycamore
Flats at the moment when Pollock murdered Plant. I know positively that
you were an eye-witness to the deed. If you testify in one case, I shall
certainly call upon you to testify in the other. Furthermore," he turned
his gray eyes on Bob, and for the second time the young man was
permitted to see an implacable hostility, "although not on the scene
itself, I can myself testify, and will, that you held the murderer's
horse during the deed, and assisted Pollock to escape. Furthermore, I
can testify, and can bring a competent witness, that while supposed to
be estimating Government timber in the Basin, you were in communication
with Pollock.
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