The other three men were already out on the footpath in front of the bank entrance. Eustace slipped into the little ante-room that served as the manager's private office, as the sound of a vehicle pulling up outside the bank reached him.
CHAPTER III
DISAPPEARED
"Oh, never mind," Mrs. Burke exclaimed as Brennan went to the horse's head and took hold of the reins. "Sure I'm only stopping for a moment—I won't get out. It's just to see Mr. Eustace I've come."
The men on the footpath looked at one another and then at her.
In the doorway Harding stood hesitating whether to go out or to wait until Mrs. Burke alighted from the buggy.
"You've heard the news, haven't you?" Allnut asked as he stepped to her side. "Ill news travels apace, they say. Hasn't word got out as far as the Downs?"
Mrs. Burke turned the full battery of her dark-fringed eyes on the storekeeper.