... with handfuls of sample grain, and making a gratuitous addition to the uproar. All the while, monotonous and incessant, the metallic chatter of scores of telegraph instruments made a long organ-point ... over as he rode home from the bank,was that there could be no proof, not a grain, that he had not merely made a very natural mistake.But for all that he was afraid. For no assignable reason, at ... was far too early to go in, and afterhesitating a while on the steps, he went away and wandered aimlessly about the streets. The people he passedstared at him, and he knew that his white face...