A later paragraph.

"The detectives were busy this morning, going over the whole
ground in the vicinity of the bridge.

"They were rewarded by two important discoveries. The impression
of a foot in a certain soft place halfway up the bluff; and a
small heap of fresh earth nearby which, on being dug into,
revealed the watch of the murdered man. The broken chain lay with
it.

"The footprint has been measured. It coincides exactly with the
shoe worn that night by the suspect.

"The case will be laid before the Grand Jury next week."

"The prisoner continues to deny his guilt. The story he gives out
is to the effect that he left the tavern some few minutes before
seven o'clock, to look for his child who had wandered into the
ravine. That he entered the woods from the road running by his
house, and was searching the bushes skirting the stream when he
heard little Reuther's shout from somewhere up on the bluff. He
had his stick with him, for he never went out without it, but,
finding it in his way, he leaned it against a tree and went
plunging up the bluff without it. Why he didn't call out the
child's name he doesn't know; he guessed he thought he would
surprise her; and why, when he got to the top of the bluff and
didn't find her, he should turn about for his stick instead of
hunting for her on the road, he also fails to explain, saying
again, he doesn't know. What circumstances force him to tell and