What the deuce, then, was the fellow up to, that he should glower and dodge like a sleuth in a play?

These were counterfeiters, murderers, embezzlers, horse-thieves, confidence men, what notcriminals to satisfy a sleuth of the most catholic tastes; but they were all wanted elsewhereat Altoona, Pennsylvania, or Deming, New Mexico; at Portland, Maine, or Dodge City, Kansas.

Better be cautious and wait until he had thrown the sleuths off his track.

But for this and that, I'd be tempted to think you were sleuthing on the trail of some female fair but faithless.