Now you get your men together--this is no time for sleeping.

You ought to have men up at the Shawl now." "I've left one man at Kitely's cottage, sir, and another about Harborough's--in case Harborough should come back during the night," said the sergeant.

"We've two more constables close by the station.

I'll get them up." "Do it just now," commanded Mallalieu.

"I'll be back in a while." He hurried out again and went rapidly down the High Street to the old-fashioned building near the Town Hall in which the one bank of the little town did its business, and in which the bank manager lived.