He had the more difficult task, for Patsy, of course, had been disguised when he arrived in the town, and, as Nick presumed, he changed his disguise almost daily.
Calculating from the telegram, Nick reckoned that Patsy must have reached Helena on a certain day and by a certain train.
He asked men employed at the station about the passengers who arrived on that day.
From one he got a tip as to a man who might be Patsy who left his grip at the station and walked away.
The grip was sent for later, the man said, and was taken to a street that he named.
Nick went to that street.
He walked the length of it twice.
There was no good hotel on it, but several boarding houses, and any number of saloons.
Among others was Bronco Bill’s.
Nick looked at it each time he passed.