"I did not wait for that. There was a crowd gathering, and everybody was as excited as could be. But I think I saw the robbers."
"I saw two men and a boy running, and each had a satchel."
"That was certainly suspicious," returned Mrs. Nelson. She was in too much pain to say more just then, and set about making use of the things Ralph had brought from the doctor's. Fortunately, these did her much good, and inside of half an hour she was considerably better.
"I thought I heard you coming a quarter of an hour before you did," remarked Mrs. Nelson, presently. "I certainly heard somebody walking in the dooryard."
Ralph was interested at once.
"I heard footsteps, too," he said. "Somebody must have been prowling about. Who could it have been?"
"Perhaps the post office robbers," suggested Mrs. Nelson, somewhat nervously.
"I don't see what they would be doing about here," rejoined Ralph, seriously.
"Did they come in this direction?"