"Good-by, my lad," he said. "I don't know when we will meet again. A lot depends upon yourself. Even now I feel almost as if I ought not——"
"Don't say another word, please. I'm going to do what you have laid out for me to do. I wouldn't obey you now if you should change the order."
"Oh, yes, you would. But I won't change it."
And so they parted there in the restaurant.
And a little later Nick Carter took the train for Calamont.
CHAPTER XII.
BILL TURNER, THE WOODSMAN.
When Nick Carter arrived at Calamont, he was disguised as a lumberman. It was not exactly the season of the year for lumbermen to enter the woods, unless they were measurers, who were engaged in preparing in advance work for the winter; so that was the character which Nick Carter adopted.
Measurers go into the woods, measure trees on the stump, as it is called, blaze them with cabalistic marks, and otherwise prepare the way for the workers with the axes and saws who are to come later.