“Or he may be lying now in a newly made grave somewhere, his papers and his birthright stolen by another,� suggested Patsy.
“Well, lad,� replied the detective, “that is what you are going to Idaho to ascertain. You are going there to trace every trail you can find of Carleton Lynne, and to follow one of them till it brings you here, if he is here; to wherever he is now, if he is not here.�
CHAPTER XX.
IN AN OPERA BOX.
“Well, Chick?�
“Nothing, Nick.�
“You have been ten days on the trail of Carleton Lynne, now.�
“Yes; and for the last five of them he has been in possession of the fortune he came here to get. It seems to me that it was given up to him mighty easily.�
“That was in accordance with my advice, Chick.�
“It was? Why?�
“Because I drew the inference that the possession of the millions would throw him off his guard; and the woman, also.�