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He
had
returned
to
the
hotel
at
a
still
later
hour
;
and
finding
it
open
--
on
account
of
a
party
of
bons
vivants
who
had
supped
there
--
had
done
that
which
he
had
not
done
for
a
long
time
before
--
demanded
his
bill
,
and
to
Old
Duffer
's
astonishment
--
as
the
latter
naïvely
confessed
--
settled
every
cent
of
it
!
Where
he
had
procured
the
money
"
Gott
"
only
knew
,
or
why
he
left
the
hotel
in
such
a
hurry
.
Oberdoffer
himself
only
knew
that
he
had
left
it
,
and
taken
all
his
'
trapsh
'
along
with
him
--
just
as
he
was
in
the
habit
of
doing
,
whenever
he
went
off
upon
one
of
his
horse-catching
expeditions
.
On
one
of
these
the
village
Boniface
supposed
him
to
have
gone
.
What
had
all
this
to
do
with
the
question
before
the
council
?
Much
indeed
;
though
it
did
not
appear
till
the
last
moment
of
his
examination
,
when
the
witness
revealed
the
more
pertinent
facts
:
--
that
about
twenty
minutes
after
the
mustanger
had
taken
his
departure
from
the
hotel
,
"
Heinrich
Poindexter
"
knocked
at
the
door
,
and
inquired
after
Mr
Maurice
Gerald
;
--
that
on
being
told
the
latter
was
gone
,
as
also
the
time
,
and
probable
direction
he
had
taken
,
the
"
young
gentlemans
"
rode
off
a
a
quick
pace
,
as
if
with
the
intention
of
overtaking
him
.
This
was
all
Mr
Oberdoffer
knew
of
the
matter
;
and
all
he
could
be
expected
to
tell
.
The
intelligence
,
though
containing
several
points
but
ill
understood
,
was
nevertheless
a
guide
to
the
expeditionary
party
.
It
furnished
a
sort
of
clue
to
the
direction
they
ought
to
take
If
the
missing
man
had
gone
off
with
Maurice
the
mustanger
,
or
after
him
,
he
should
be
looked
for
on
the
road
the
latter
himself
would
be
likely
to
have
taken
.
Did
any
one
know
where
the
horse-hunter
had
his
home
?
No
one
could
state
the
exact
locality
;
though
there
were
several
who
believed
it
was
somewhere
among
the
head-waters
of
the
Nueces
,
on
a
creek
called
the
"
Alamo
.
"
To
the
Alamo
,
then
,
did
they
determine
upon
proceeding
in
quest
of
the
missing
man
,
or
his
dead
body
--
perhaps
,
also
,
to
find
that
of
Maurice
the
mustanger
;
and
,
at
the
same
time
,
avenge
upon
the
savage
assassins
two
murders
instead
of
one
.
