“Nick,” said Dinsmore, “who gave you the tip about all this?”
The detective looked his old friend in the eyes for a moment, and answered, quietly:
“Gov. Bradley.”
“The deuce you say! Why didn’t you jump on the case?”
“Because I didn’t know till I arrived in Manchester that it was the governor who called on me. He said his name was Snell. I doubted it, but I had no suspicion as to who he really was. I could see that he was holding some facts back, and that made me turn him down. That was where Bradley made a bad mistake.”
The detective and Dinsmore made good connections, and arrived in Helena at six o’clock in the evening of the following day.
They began at once to trace the men they wanted to find.
Dinsmore made inquiries for a man answering the description of Gov. Bradley.
Nick, knowing that Patsy must have come to Helena, hunted for some trace of him.