“Do they have banks in Tahlequah?”
“Yes—a bank, anyway. He was suspected of robbing it. Whoever did it got away with more than twenty thousand dollars. They offered a reward of five thousand. I believe I saw that very man, on my way east.”
“No—is that so?
“I certainly saw a man on the train, the first day I struck the railroad, that answered the description pretty exactly—at least as to clothes and a lacking arm.”
“Why din’t you get him arrested and claim the reward?”
“I couldn’t. I had to get a requisition, of course. But I meant to stay by him till I got my chance.”
“Well?”
“Well, he left the train during the night some time.”
“Oh, hang it, that’s too bad.”
“Not so very bad, either.”