Part 36 (2/2)
These fairs were reat ie crowds of strangers fro country, and created a rather lively scene
Jack was lurking near the bank with Timberlake, and Ti distance, yet completely concealed from view
The inventor and his companion stood in a doorway close to the bank, intently watching the thronging natives
”Here's another exa the silence
”To what do you allude?”his arrival here during the fair”
”In as that a sharp , wouldn't he?”
”I think he would not venture it without the on”
”Probably he did”
”Wouldn't the entrance of his gang to the town excite a great deal of comment and attention if there were no fair?”
”Naturally, as crowds in country towns are unusual”
”Well, I figure it that he knew the fair was in progress here, that he knew the croould cloak his entrance of his gang, and they would therefore excite no suspicion”
”That seems to be pretty likely”
”Would you know all the men if you saw thenize the old members He occasionally recruits new men We have wiped out soh soement with them, the ones who fell were mostly new men
”That's the reason they fell perhaps The older birds had experience enough to keep out of haro into that bank, you can rest assured that I'll recognize them”
”It's half-past t, but they haven'tto save his life”
”No--I think not His tones had a truthful ring”
Jack glanced across the street at the bank
It was a a s, with two iron-barred s and a door flush with the street, through which he could see the entire interior
There were half a dozen clerks busy inside behind a long desk, before which there was a wire netting that rose al