“Oh, they are often about here at the time this early train passes. I don’t know where they all come from, I’m sure.”
“Well,” said Nick, “if a man came here on a train and left on the same one, and met a girl here, it must have been by previous arrangement, of course, and may occur again. You keep your eye out for a couple of weeks when this morning train passes, and you shall be well paid for your work.”
“All right,” was the reply, as the man pocketed a banknote of liberal denomination. “They won’t get away from me again.”
Nick now went to the station agent and asked about the tickets purchased for the early morning train. The agent declared that none had been bought that morning.
“But a trunk was checked,” insisted the detective.
“That was on a ticket bought in the afternoon,” said the agent.
“Do you know how many people took that morning train from this station?” asked the detective.
“I do not.”
“Did you see people waiting for the train here?”
“Say,” said the agent, “I don’t know what’s getting into folks to-day. It seems that there was something doing when that train went by.”