"
Jack started. Then he remembered that in Ed's wallet were bills of
large denomination.
"Suspicion even here," he muttered to Cora as they went out.
"Hush, Jack, dear," she said softly. "Some folks will hear you."
"Well, I don't care if they do. It's fierce--the way people believe
that you--and I--had a hand in that robbery."
"Never mind," replied his sister. "Oh," she added quickly, "there
are the Robinson girls outside," and she hurried down the bank
steps. The two sisters were walking slowly along, and from a certain
air about Bess it was evident that she had something important to
tell Cora.
"Any news of the--robbery?" Bess asked Jack.
"Not that I know of," he answered rather gloomily. "The trouble is
that so many of those who might be able to throw additional light on
it are away. Sid has gone--no one seems to know where--Ida is away
visiting, and we haven't been able to find that old farmer that got
his team in the way of the race. Ed remembers passing him on the
road, and he spoke to him, but even that wouldn't account for how
the wallet got in Cora's car."
"No," said Elizabeth with a sigh. "But where are you going, Cora?"
"Around to Madam Julia's. I went in the bank to get grandmother's
hundred-dollar bill broken, so I could pay for my things at madam's.
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