It came in a few moments and was delivered by word of mouth, the clerk seeing no reason why he should put himself to the trouble of writing it out.
"They say they'll put one o' their best men on the case, Colonel, an' he'll get to the Junction at five-forty tonight." The Colonel and I rode home together, he in a more placable frame of mind.

Though I dare say he disliked as much as ever the idea of losing his bonds, still the eclat of a robbery, of a magnitude that demanded a detective, was something of a palliative.

It was not everyone of his listeners who had five thousand dollars in bonds to lose.

I knew that it would be useless to try to head off the detective now, and I wisely kept silent.

My mind was by no means at rest however; for an unknown reason I did not want a detective any more than Radnor.