He went to the smoker, and after he had been there half an hour or so, Snell and the stranger came in also.
They did not talk much as they smoked their cigars, but no one would have guessed that one had tried to kill the other less than twelve hours before.
So it was all the way to Chicago.
The two men were together all the time, and there was hardly a minute that the detective did not have them in view.
It was early morning when the train arrived in Chicago.
Snell and his companion got into a cab, and Patsy heard them tell the driver to go to the Northwestern station.
Patsy arrived at the station at the same moment they did.
They breakfasted in the station restaurant, and after a time they went to the ticket window.
Snell bought a ticket for Helena, Montana.
The stranger did not buy any.