AND THEN WITH ANOTHER ROAR THE ELEPHANT MADE FOR BOB AND FRANK.
“These yere young men want dinner.”
“Oh!”
“Cost both of ye twenty cents apiece,” went on the old man.
“That’s fair enough,” said Frank. “Can we have it soon?”
“I will have it ready in quarter of an hour,” said the woman.
“That is time enough.”
The woman disappeared, and Frank and Bob sat down on a bench to rest. They entered into conversation with the old man, and it was not long before the talk drifted around to the Wright robbery, of which the old man had just heard.
“They ain’t cotch them fellers yet, I hear,” he said. “It’s great pity.”
“That’s true. But perhaps they’ll be caught soon,” said Frank.