“Cody, is she comin’?” Nomad panted.
The scout glanced out. “I think not.”
“Then, Cody,” he lowered his voice, “come into thet room over thar, fer I want a talk with ye. Fasten ther door, so that she can’t git in. And don’t let Latimer know about it. Jes’ a few minutes’ talk with ye, in thet room over thar.”
He ran on toward the door of the room indicated.
The scout stayed, in obedience to his request, to bar the outer door against the ferocious Pizen Kate. He occupied but a minute of time in doing it, and then followed on to the room, through whose door he had seen Nomad vanish. But when he entered the room Nomad was not there.
“Nomad!” he called, looking about.
There was no reply.
CHAPTER V.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES.
Nick Nomad had disappeared with such a mystery in the manner of his going that Buffalo Bill was bewildered.
The room into which Nomad had run was, apparently, but an ordinary room, with no door but the one he had gone through; and it had but one window, which was closed and locked, and which, the scout was absolutely sure, Nomad had not opened. Even a casual examination of that window was enough to show that Nomad would not have had time to open it and get through it before the scout’s appearance; and even if he could have succeeded in doing that, he could not, from the outside, have locked it, for it was locked from the inside.