"Yes, I want to see him directly."
In a minute, Reuben had opened the door.
"I am Captain Whitney," he said. "What is it?"
"I am glad I have found you, sir. They told me at the next station you were here yesterday, but they did not know whether you were here now.
"Well, sir, I am shepherding some twenty miles away; and this afternoon, just as I had got back to my hut, in runs a black fellow. It is a lonely spot, and I reached for my gun, thinking there was more of them, when he said:
"'No shoot, me friend. Me sarve Captain Whitney of de police. You know him?'
"I said I had heard your name.
"'You know where he is?' the black asked.
"I said I did not know for certain; but that when my mate went in for grub, two days before, he had heard say that you had been along there that morning.
"The black said: 'Good. You run and find him.'