four
o'clock
Beyond that one statement which had produced such a curious effect , Lite did not have anything to say that shed the faintest light upon the matter . He told where he had been , and that he had discovered the body just before Jean arrived , and that he had immediately started with her to town . The coroner did not cross-question him . Counting from four o'clock , which Jim had already named as the time of their separation , Lite would have had just about time to do the things he testified to doing . The only thing he claimed to have done and could not possibly have done , was to see Aleck Douglas riding into the coulee . Aleck himself had branded that a lie before Lite had ever uttered it . The result was just what was to be expected .