"Well, there's strange likenesses sometimes. Did I ever tell you my adventure out in Maine?"
"No, what was it?"
"I went down East to see a sister of mine that is married down near Augusta. When, as I was goin' through Portland, a woman came up and made a great ado about my deserting her. She took me for her husband, and came near having me arrested for desertion. You see I and her husband was as like as two peas, that's what some of her neighbors said."
"How did you get off?"
"Luckily I had documents in my pocket showing who I was. Besides, my brother-in-law happened to be in the city, and he identified me."
Rudolph sat in the public room of the hotel for a time, and then he went up to his room, partly to be out of the way of possible recognition, partly to think how he could manage to get Tony into his clutches once more, without betraying himself, or exciting any interference.
He had a back room, the window of which looked out upon the stable-yard. He seated himself at this window, and in this position could easily see and hear all that passed there.
Tony and the hostler were lounging about, the latter smoking a clay pipe, their work being done for the day.
"Tony," said the hostler, "I almost forgot to tell you, you're to go to Thornton to-morrow."