I'm past sixty, or I might attend to
the business myself. You're still a young man. I'll see that Mrs. Keeler
and the boy lack for nothing while you are gone. And I don't expect you
to take any risks. I simply want you to get the facts, then turn them
over to the authorities. Will you do it?"
Keeler hesitated. "There's very little to go on. The robbers have
cleared out, and nobody knows who they were or where they went."
"Don't you believe it," said Palmer. "If decent people don't know, there
are the other kind."
"I reckon you and I would be about as helpless as babes with 'the other
kind.' We've always despised them and kept away from them."
"But they're human, like the rest of us. You and I understand human
nature pretty well. We won't breathe a word to any one. You tell Mrs.
Keeler you're attending to important business for me, that I'm
grub-staking you, and that there's something in it for you and the
family. If the neighbors get wind of it, they'll think, perhaps, you are
attending to money matters for me. They seem to be mighty curious about
my money."
"Well, I might do it, if I only knew how to go about it.
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