After that they took to their heels, leaving the poor despoiled traveller looking mournfully at his empty pockets, which were turned wrong side out.
"Steal" wrote Eugenia on her card, although she could think of no book beginning with that name.

"Thieves" wrote Rob, and any one looking over the shoulders of the group would have seen several cards which bore the same word, but more which their puzzled owners had left blank.

Betty tapped her teeth a moment with a pencil and then triumphantly wrote "rob." The next act showed a hastily constructed house made of a clothes-horse and heavy roofing paper.

Doors and windows had been roughly outlined in charcoal.

In front, a swinging sign-board announced it as the "Traveller's Rest" and offered refreshment within for man and beast.
"Inn" wrote Betty, quickly guessing the second syllable.