dence against the three Brahmins suspected in his murder. "There is here, moral, if not legal evidence that the murder was committed by the Indians" (524). It is the highly respected Cuff who says this and continues on with his theory of how the Indians murdered Godfrey Ablewhite. The details are not important, but what is important is that this "moral evidence" is enough for Cuff to track down these Indians through the police. Sergeant Cuff personally instructs a man to follow the three men and most likely if found to drag them back into jail for questioning. Although Collins places these scenes far apart in the novel he means for us to make comparisons between them because of that exact phrasing. It would have been easier if Collins had made a more direct conn
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