“Yes, there’s that, and better have company in case there’s trouble,” said Macdonald. “It does look to me as though someone watched out when Brough and I went to High Garth and that Brough was attacked when he hurried back to his car. Betty Shearling said she saw a man going across the fell and thought he was one of Brough’s hired men.”
“It wasn’t. We’ve got his men taped,” said Bord. “Then there’s this: Jock Shearling was out there and his wife knew it. I’ve nought to say against Shearling, but this is the third time he’s been in a district where there’s been trouble: he was on Whemside at the time of the sheep-stealing racket, he was in Gimmerdale when Herdwick was arrested, and now he’s here.”
“There’ll be plenty of people to remember that,” said Macdonald. “I believe Jock’s straight,
