The marshal might have thought Daniel was out of trouble, but I knew better. If those police ever caught up with Tommy, he’d blab to save his neck and they’d know Daniel was in on it too. My only thought was to find Jimmy and have him turn over the money so they’d stop looking for it, though I didn’t have any idea how I’d get him to do that.
I went into the Breakwater Hotel looking for him and told the man at the desk I had urgent news for Mr. Lowe. He didn’t want me in there, of course, but I pestered him until he told me Jimmy wasn’t there. He hadn’t checked out, though, which meant he was still around somewhere. I got let down a bit when I thought he might be hiding out at our farm because I didn’t have any way of getting out there. But since Tommy had scattered the horses and Jimmy wa
