“It may be only two or three days, you know, and I can get along all right. I’ll pay for the room for a week, anyway.”
With this, he took bills from his pocket, and gave money to the proprietor, who responded:
“O.K., then the place is yours.”
Then the landlord invited Snell to have a drink, and Snell accepted the invitation.
“Well,” thought Patsy, “I shall have to find another place to stay. Bronco Bill evidently isn’t used to having guests in real hotel fashion, and two at a time would make him and everybody else suspicious.
“I couldn’t put up any sort of a yarn that would satisfy them. So I’ll get a room somewhere else, and then drop in here when I feel like it.
“That will be safe enough, for it looks sure that Snell is bound to stay for a while.”
As the detective left the saloon, he saw a sign in the window of a house opposite:
ROOMS TO LET.