The journey was without incident, and was made as rapidly as possible, considering that there are no through trains between New York and the distant Canadian town.
Dinsmore met him at the station.
“I’ve got a telegram for you,” he said, as soon as they had shaken hands. “It was forwarded from New York, after you left.”
Nick opened and read it. It was the one Patsy had sent from Chicago to say that he was going with Snell to Helena.
“All right,” said Nick. “Now, what’s the case?”
“It was reported by the lieutenant governor,” replied Dinsmore, “Gov. Bradley being away. His absence makes the thing very peculiar, and I don’t understand it at all. How you should know in New York that a robbery had taken place in Manchester before anybody here suspected such a thing, is quite a mystery.”
“I believe,” responded Nick, “that I begin to see how that happened. But go on. Some State papers have disappeared.”
“That’s it, and that’s what makes me suppose it the same affair that you seemed to have in mind when you telegraphed from New York.”