“The day his body was discovered—I believe you didn’t come all the way up to the Devil’s Chair.” “No, we had no need—we came along the track down there and found him near the rock. Why? How d’ye know that?” “Because if you’d come up past the tower—before the storm—you’d have seen the fresh trench he’d dug.” Hancock nodded slowly. “That’s true.” “Then don’t you understand? He was not at the Devil’s Chair that day for no reason. He had a task—digging bones. Why would he venture up on to the ridge? Something must have caused him to desert his work and clamber all the way up here—chased him up, I
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