"To see Sue, of course, and find out why she came here."
"But Cole didn't follow her. How do you know where to look?" asked Clell.
"We've only got one family who are 'true blue' here, the Priors," returned his leader, "and I'm going to see them. If she isn't there or they can't locate her, I shan't try.
"I didn't want to go near 'em while we were at the Springs: 'What people don't know won't hurt 'em.' But Sue's coming makes a difference."
And it didn't take long for the outlaws to learn that the arrival of the sister of the notorious Jesse did, indeed, make a vast difference!
When the altercation between Dillaby and the supposed miner had reached the point where the latter sent for the constables, the rest of the Pinkertons, who had been trailing behind their superintendent, scurried in all directions, some to reach the chief of police in time to make themselves known and get him to countermand the order, others to report the failure, with its unforeseen result, to the banker.
Upon young Rozier's intercession, however, the former dropped the idea of calling on the head of the police department though they continued to the heart of the village.
As they were walking about, looking at the people and the stores, one of them suddenly espied the two men trailing Susie.
"There's Jones and Higgins," he gasped in surprise. "What are they doing here?"
No satisfactory answer occurring to any of them, they decided to speak to their fellow sleuths.