A single half-dollar is easy to count.

Still, on the following morning there were two coins to count.

True, both were dimes.
A diligent search among the miscellany of the Crystal Palace Hotel had failed to reveal a single razor.

The razor used by the miner should in all reason have been found, but there was neither that nor any other.
The baffled seeker believed there must have been crooked work somewhere.
Without hesitation he found either Jimmie or his companion to be guilty of malfeasance in office.

But at least one item of more or less worried debate was eliminated.