Then to endeavor to obtain a photograph of Duncan, and finally thereafter to lose no time in starting out for Sioux City.
I was considerably exercised about this missing package of gold.

I could not believe that Pearson had taken it, although both Edwards and Duncan appeared to be positive of it.

The young cashier now seemed to be too utterly crushed down and humiliated to permit me to believe that he had lied still further, and that he was still keeping back a portion of the plunder he had secured.

Still, however much I was desirous of discarding such a belief, I was resolved to leave no stone unturned in order to explain the mystery.

I felt positive that some explanation would yet be made that would account for this package, and in a manner that would not connect Eugene Pearson with its disappearance.