“Leonard Martin.”
“How did he impress you, Mr. Hepner?”
“He impressed me as being a Westerner.”
“Good!” exclaimed Nick. “I am especially interested in Westerners, one in particular, whom I’d give a good deal to lay my hands upon. But tell me more about this fellow?”
“Well, he had an easy, independent way with him, and when he talked he used a vernacular only to be found beyond the Missouri.”
“He was a stranger in town, you think?”
“I don’t think anything about it—I know. He is one of a party of four who are touring New England in an auto car.”
“Still in town?”
“Yes, and liable to be here for a few days, I guess.”
“Why do you guess that?”