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Before starting off on the trail of the big sleigh , Anderson sent this message by wire to the lawyers in Chicago : '' _ I have found the girl you want , but the body is lost . Would you just as soon have her dead as alive _ ? `` ANDERSON CROW . '' In a big bob-sled the marshal and a picked sextette of men set off at one o'clock on the road over which the sleigh had travelled many hours before . Anderson had failed to report the suspected crime to the sheriff at Boggs City and was working alone on the mystery . He said he did not want anybody from town interfering with his affairs . `` Say , Andy -- Anderson , '' said Harry Squires , now editor of the _ Banner _ , `` maybe we 're hunting the wrong body and the wrong people . ''