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JANE CLIFTON had seen Mrs. Untersohn enter the house. Possibly she had a key of her own, thought Jane, and waited. Five minutes passed, ten minutes, but the woman did not emerge. And then she saw a number of men walking rapidly down the street and recognized, in the fading light of day, the thickset Bourke. Her heart nearly stood still. They were going to raid the office, and Peter was there somewhere. There was a little consultation among the three. She thought one of them was Rouper. They were talking head to head, and then --
The sound of two shots came in rapid succession. She could locate the sounds by instinct rather than knowledge. Somebody inside that office was firing -- and Peter was there!