"Let me show you that Matt Lisner never thought Foy was guilty.

Foy said last night, before the killing, that he was coming up here, didn't he ?" "Hey, Major--hold up!" cried Pringle.

But Vorhis was not to be stopped.
"Don't you see, you doddering imbecile?
If Foy had really killed Dick Marr he might have gone to any other place in the world--but he wouldn't have come here." "Aha! So Foy did come here, hey ?" croaked the sheriff, triumphant in his turn.

"Thanks, Major, for the information, though I was sure before, humanly speaking, that he came this way." "Which is another way of saying that you don't think Foy did the killing--that you don't even suspect him of it," said Anastacio.

as the Major subsided, crestfallen.