Along the railroad, a perfect army of workmen were assembled, awaiting their orders for the day.

Graders, tie-men, track-layers and construction corps, were already on the spot, and they too seemed imbued with the same spirit of enthusiasm which filled their more wealthy and ambitious neighbors in the city.

As may readily be imagined, crime and immorality followed hand in hand with the march of improvement.

The gambler and the harlot plied their vocations in the full light of day, and as yet unrebuked by the ruling powers of a community, too newly located to assume the dignity of enacting laws.
The detective made his way through the streets, mentally noting these things, while his efforts were directed to finding some trace of Thomas Duncan.

He made a systematic tour of the hotels, or more properly speaking, the boarding-houses with which the town was filled, and after numerous disappointments, was at last successful in learning something definite of the movements of his man.