"I've been expecting some of you. You want to know about those two men
that stopped with me a short time before the 'Frisco express robbery?"

Seeing at once that he was conversing with a more than ordinary shrewd
individual, Chip replied, "That's just what I'm here for. But why do you
ask that question?"

"Well, I suspicioned something was wrong with them two men. They came
here on the fifteenth of October, and paid me a week's board in advance.
They kept their room almost all the time, and when I went in to clean
it, I saw a lot of railroad time-tables and maps scattered around. One
of them was always in the room. It was never left alone. A week before
the robbery, the smaller man left, he said for Kansas City, and the
larger man told me if a letter came to the house, directed to Williams,
that is for him. Well, on the Friday before the robbery, such a letter
did come, and the big man, after reading it, said he had to go to Kansas
City at once, but he didn't leave the house until Monday, and the next
day the robbery occurred."

"Can you give me a description of the men?"

The landlady thereupon gave a full description of the larger man, which
Chip carefully inserted in his note book, and recognized as the same
given by Fotheringham of his assailant on that memorable night. But her
description of the smaller of the two was somewhat vague, as she said he
was only in the house a short time, and she saw very little of him.

"May I go up to the room?"

"Yes; come this way."