Saturday noon
If you can discover that lame negro , and bring him to my office , I will pay you two hundred and fifty dollars , and give him a new suit of clothes . The only hope for General Darrington 's granddaughter is in putting that man on the witness stand , to corroborate her statement of a conversation which she heard . This is Wednesday . I will give you until Saturday noon to report . If you do not succeed I shall then advertise . If you wish to save Miss Brentano , help me to find that man . '' He swung himself into the saddle , and rode away , leaving Bedney staring after him , in pitiable dubiety as to his own line of duty .