As Jesse James and his men were not aboard, he at once presumed it was they who had thus eluded him.
He, therefore, alighted at the next station, and boarded the first train back for Wrightstown.
By dint of inquiring, he discovered that five men who answered to the description of his prey, were at the Sea Spider Hotel, and made his way there.
When he reached the hotel, he learned that the men were there, and had retired to one of the rooms.
Timberlake was a man who never wasted words.
When he spoke or acted, it was to the point.
He therefore made no remark, but quickly made his way up-stairs, sure that he had his prey cornered.
By moving quietly, and listening at the different doors, he finally located the sound of several voices coming from the room occupied by the James Boys.
He recognized them at once as the voices of the gang whom he had tracked to New York.
"It's time to get ready, boys," he heard Jesse say.