noon
He learned nothing either at the police headquarters or at the newspaper offices that threw light on the disappearance of Gordon . No murder had been reported during the night . No unusual disturbance of any kind had occurred , so far as could be learned . Before noon he had the town plastered with posters in English and in Spanish offering a reward of five hundred dollars for news leading to the recovery of Richard Gordon or for evidence leading to the conviction of his murderers in case he was dead . This brought two callers to the hotel almost at once . One was the attorney Fitt , the other a young woman who gave her name as Kate Underwood . Fitt used an hour of the old miner 's time to no purpose , but the young woman brought with her one piece of news .