man with the big beard, his presumable partner, whom Stet had vaguely described to Frank.
"I must catch the afternoon train for the city and make my report to headquarters," said the inspector, when Frank returned to him with the marshal. "I want you to put a trustworthy custodian in charge here until we can send a regular man to close up the matter, and start after those swindlers."
"I'll put one of my deputies in charge," said the marshal. "As to Wacker and his partner, they're probably safe and far by this time."
The inspector regarded the speaker with a half-pitying, half-contemptuous look.
"That's as may be," he observed, "for the present. We don't let matters drop that easily, ourselves. There's something you mustn't forget officer: When the United States Government gets after a guilty man, if he fled to the furthest corners of the earth, we never let up till we find him."
