This also seemed somewhat strange, and the detective was a little disappointed.
He had hoped to keep them together.
But he bought a ticket for Helena, and in due time was again on the same train with Snell.
The stranger stayed at the station until the train left, and Patsy saw him on the platform as it rolled out.
Nothing of importance happened on the rest of the way to Helena.
Once the detective tried to scrape acquaintance with Snell, but the latter answered him in a surly way, and made it plain that he did not care to talk to anybody.
So Patsy gave it up for fear of making him suspicious.
Meantime, he had telegraphed Nick as to where he was going.
When they arrived in Helena, Snell did not go to a first-rate hotel, as he had done in New York, but walked about the streets, as if looking for some place that he had been sent to.