All this was important, and Kerr made a note of the names of all witnesses.
“I’ll try to show Nick Carter,” he thought, “that I can work up a case.”
He was just about to leave the hotel, when Folsom approached him with a telegram in his hand.
He gave it to Kerr, who read the one word it contained:
“Coming.”
It was signed “N.C.”
“All right,” said Kerr; “when he gets here I shall probably have the guilty man in the lockup. He doesn’t say when he will arrive.”
“No,” responded Folsom, “but as this was sent from Pueblo, it shows that he is on the way. I’ve looked up the trains, and should say that he’d be here early in the evening.”
“Well, I’m going down to the telegraph office to look up that messenger’s book. If it gives the time I think it does, I shall start for Mason Creek without waiting for Carter.”
“I suppose that’s right,” said Folsom.