Now, Captain Wingfield, I have got some other business in hand that will take me a couple of hours.

I will leave you out this volume and the one before it and the one after it, and if you like to go through them you may come across the description of some man that agrees with that of the man you are in search of." It took Vincent two hours and a half to go through the volume, but he met with no description answering to that of Pearson.
"I will go through the first six months of the next year," he said to himself, taking up that volume, "and the last six months of the year before." The second volume yielded no better result, and he then turned back to the first of the three books.

Beginning in July, he read steadily on until he came to December.

Scarcely had he begun the record of that month when he uttered an exclamation of satisfaction.
"December the 2d .-- Information laid against a gang at Porter's station, near Lynch's Creek.

Charged with several robberies and murders in different parts of the country.