human
You didn't agree with the corporal that the shots were fired in the same place?
gpt
No, sir, said Ingleby.
human
One of them, I feel certain, came from quite an opposite direction. The corporal was busy at the time, or he would have recognized it.
gpt
The men who have just spoken were correct in their account of what Sewell did when Trooper Probyn had been taken out of the water?
human
Yes, sir.
gpt
Did Sewell remove anything from the body?
human
He did, and Ingleby took a little packet from his pocket and opened it.
gpt
These leaves. They had evidently been placed upon the wound. He said Probyn could not have placed them there himself, and they were what the Indians often used to stanch a flow of blood.
human
Have any of you heard of the Indians using a plant for that purpose?
gpt
I guess I have, said one.
human
One of them tried to fix up a partner of mine, who'd cut himself chopping, with the thing. It didn't seem to work on a white man.
gpt
I believe there is such a plant, he said.
human
Now, so far as we have gone, circumstances seem to point to Probyn having been shot by a man who afterwards tried to save him. He used a plant that only the Indians seem to believe in. Come right in, Corporal. Do you recognize this carbine?
gpt
Yes, sir, he said.
human
It's Probyn's. Am I quite sure? I know the number, and that dint under the barrel. He fell and struck it on a rock one day when I was with him.