“Do you think he’s a crook?” asked the young man.
“Not yet. He may be. If so, it won’t be the first time that a crook has tried to throw me off the track by calling on me. I simply feel that there’s something queer in this, and I’d like to find out about it. So I shall ask this man to call again unless he makes up his mind to tell me all the facts.”
Snell refused to tell all the facts, and so Patsy slipped out after him.
He had not gone far from the house when the young detective became convinced that another man also was following Snell.
This made his work very difficult, for he had to look sharp against betraying himself not only to Snell, but the other man.
Snell went into a drug store and bought a cigar.
The man who seemed to be following him loafed on the opposite corner.
Patsy turned down a street, and dropped into a doorway, where he made a swift change in his appearance.
He was at Snell’s heels again when the man from Wenonah went on.
The other man seemed to have disappeared.