He was obviously nettled that
it should have remained there unnoted while the garment was in his
keeping, but Lillian tactfully exhibited the unusual inner pocket in the
facing, the "shy pocket," which, thus located, offered some excuse for
the failure to find earlier its contents. With Julian Bayne's
suggestions, the sheriff presently hammered out a theory very closely
related to the truth. The visit of the revenue officer was detailed by
Bayne, and considered significant, the more since it began to be evident
that Briscoe was murdered, and in his case a motive for so perilous a
deed was wholly lacking. The stone lily in the child's pocket made it
evident that he himself had been in the moonshiners' cavern, the only one
known to the vicinity, or that the stone had been given to him by some
frequenter of that den--hardly to be supposed previous to the
catastrophe. In fact, the sheriff declared that he had reason to believe
that the child was wearing the coat at the time of the tragedy, and thus
it could not have been cast loosely from the vehicle at the moment when
the mare had fallen from the bluff to the depths below.
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