In cases like these the panic cannot be allayed by words.
As long as the funds held out the checks and notes were paid over the counter; but this could not go on.

Mr.Clifford himself was in the dark as to the state of affairs, and did not know how his credit stood.

Soon after midday the funds were exhausted, and with the utmost difficulty the bank was cleared and the doors closed.

But the crowd did not disperse; rather it grew denser as the news spread like wildfire that the Old Bank had stopped! It was at the moment that the bank doors were closed that Phebe turned into Whitefriars Road.

She had taken a train from Upchurch, leaving her father to return home alone with the empty wagon.