"Two white horses can't go far in this district without being noticed. Will you wire round to the different telegraph offices and ask if anything of the kind has been seen or heard of?"
"They cannot have gone more than a hundred miles since midnight, can they?" Johnson asked.
"A hundred? No, not fifty," Allnut exclaimed.
"Well, we'll say a hundred. I'll wire to every telegraph office within a hundred miles. I'll send or bring you word within half an hour."
"Supposing there is any truth in the yarn," Soden remarked slowly, "how is it going to help? I brought the men along, not because I believed their yarn, but because it seemed to me they might know more about the robbery than they would care to have known."
"There's no harm in sending off those telegrams, anyway. I'll get away and put them through," Johnson said as he went to the door.
He stood for a moment looking out along the road.
"I fancy that's Mrs. Burke coming," he called back over his shoulder to Eustace.
Soden, Allnut, and Brennan, at the mention of the name, moved towards the door, and Harding came round the counter to join them.
"You had better see her, Harding," Eustace said under his breath. "Tell her everything will be all right so far as she is concerned. We cannot say more until we hear from head office."