As if he had brought on the catastrophe! "Why don't he tell us where we stand ?" demanded one obstreperous creditor.

"Smash in the door! Let's find out what's become of our money!" "He's in cohoots with thieves!" exclaimed another.

"They're all a lot of crooks! What one has left behind the other'll take." Britz and Greig, mingling with the crowd, neither encouraged nor discouraged the destructive fury which they saw gathering.

They knew the psychology of mobs.

It is brave with collective courage, but timorous, hesitant, individually.