"But it does give you a fair idea of the height of those
fellows. Mat Bailey was in here the other day to help me with these
dummies. He seems to have a pretty good idea of what the men looked
like."
As his mission to San Francisco was confidential, and inasmuch as
Palmer's Mrs. Somers was an unknown quantity, Keeler refrained from
mentioning her. He proceeded to San Francisco that day; looked up Mrs.
Somers, who gave him the names and descriptions of a dozen bad men of
Nevada County; and the next day he returned to hunt up some of these
same bad men. One of them was O'Leary of You Bet, whom he found without
trouble. But he got very little encouragement from O'Leary; and he very
soon discovered how hard it is for an honest man to get any sort of
satisfaction from thieves and liars.
In the absence of any definite information he resolved to turn eastward,
across the Sierras. He was on the right track, as we know. As far as
Omaha it was not so very difficult to make a fairly thorough search for
the criminals. However, this took time, and although he happened to pick
up information here and there about a couple of rather odd-looking
Californians traveling eastward with gold, he often felt that he was on
a fool's errand.
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