“A stone thrown by Sam Borwick,” said Macdonald. “I’m sure of that. There was only one point in attacking Brough at that moment, because Brough had seen Sam and recognised him, and so far as I can tell, there was nobody else but Sam that Brough could have recognised. He didn’t know any of the gangers, he never went up to the camp.”
“O.K., Super,” replied Bord, “but Sam wasn’t up there among the gangers. Staple went up there with me and we saw all the chaps, all forty-eight of them, and Sam wasn’t among them. They checked the gangers again last night, after someone tried to get away with one of the lorries, and all the men were there.”
“I bet it was Sam who tried to pinch the lorry,” said Macdonald. “He’d been getting practice with vans and lorries in Leverstone. You say he ‘tried to get
