I was now closely beside him.

“It was broken down, perhaps, or some accident to the harness?”

“No,” he replied. “The wheel tracks are here broadened, as though they

had skidded on a turn. This would mean little if the cut-under had been

moving at the time. But it was not moving; the horse was standing. The

cut-under had stopped.”

He went on as though in a reflection to himself.

“The vehicle must have been violently thrown about here, by something.”

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