CHAPTER XII.

THE PURSUIT.


Chip and Sam were not the only Pinkerton men in Kansas City at this time
engaged on the Adams Express robbery case, for from the time Cook awoke
from the drunken stupor in which Cummings and Moriarity found him at the
cooper-shop on the night when Chip was captured he had been shadowed
constantly by Barney, who with Chip had found the letter heads in
Fotheringham's trunk.

Day and night had Barney followed him, and he was but a short distance
behind when Cummings took Cook on the verge of the delirium tremens to
his room.

When Cook came back with the horses and with Cummings rode away, Barney
hastened to Chip, who, fully recovered from the terrible blow on the
head, had again assumed his duties, and reported the fact to him.

Sam, who was on the lookout for Moriarity, was notified at once, and the
three detectives, laying the matter before the chief of police, were
furnished with seven mounted men armed to the teeth, and all of them old
Texas rangers.

This formidable troop had left the city scarcely an hour after the
robbers had started. The direction they took and the nature of the
country pointed to Swanson's ranche as the point for which the outlaws
were making.