In his frenzy to have a light he snatched out his match box--Radnor's box--and that too was dropped in the scuffle.
"Now, even if the original motive of the crime were not robbery but revenge--as I fancy it was--at any rate the murderer, being a tramp and a thief, would have robbed the body.

But he did not.

Why was that?
Because he saw or heard something that frightened him, and what could that have been but Mose running to his master's assistance ?" Terry strode over to the steps which led to the incline, and motioning us to follow, pointed out some marks on the sloping bank at the side of the path.
"See, here are Mose's tracks.

He was in such a hurry that he could not wait to come up by the steps; he tried to take a cross cut.

He scrambled up the slippery bank so fast that he fell on his hands and knees in this place and slid back.