He hoped Hughie wouldn't hear him harnessing Nellie, and shoot at the barn.

The possibility sent him to the kitchen stairway.
It wound upward in an old-fashioned twist to the room above.
"Hughie!" he called in a low voice.

"Hughie!" There was a noise of many creaks overhead.
"I'm going to hitch up Nellie and drive over to Dr.Cole's farm.

I--I feel sure he buried the money!" "God Almighty!" exclaimed Hughie.
But Kenny was already on his way to the kitchen door..