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`` What makes it more distressing , '' said Raymond , joining one of the groups , `` is , that it appears the Doctor visited Mrs. Saltonstall last evening , and left the casa at eleven . Sanchez , who was perhaps the last person who saw him alive , says that he noticed his horse was very violent , and the Doctor did not seem able to control him . The accident probably happened half an hour later , as he was picked up about three miles from here , and from appearances must have been dragged , with his foot in the stirrup , fully half a mile before the girth broke and freed the saddle and stirrup together . The mustang , with nothing on but his broken bridle , was found grazing at the rancho as early as four o'clock , an hour before the body of his master was discovered by the men sent from the rancho to look for him . '' `` Eh , but the man must have been clean daft to have trusted himself to one of those savage beasts of the country , '' said Mr. Buchanan . `` And he was no so young either -- about sixty , I should say . It didna look even respectable , I remember , when we met him the other day , careering over the country for all the world like one of those crazy Mexicans .