“Rocky, but he was saying, ‘Very good,’ and ‘Quite right’ to Kerr.”
“That means that Kerr told him,” said Nick.
“Told him what?” asked Patsy.
“What I have done. He shouldn’t have said a word, but I can understand how he should make such a slip, for Claymore was the first to direct suspicion at Hank Low. What became of Claymore?”
“He went home. He lives in a boarding house——”
“We must have him! Come on!”
They left the hotel together hurriedly.
* * * * * * *
In a corner of Daddy Drew’s dive—the worst place in Denver—sat the two men who had escaped from Nick Carter in Helena, when he was on another case.
They had liquor in front of them, but they drank little.