Brownlee told me about it at the store.

It's happened three days running.

The first time she went without anything, the second time Brownlee's girl took her to lunch, and the third a crowd of high school girls bought a lot of stuff and met them at the bridge.

The youngsters seemed to think they could rob her every day, so I went to see their father about having it stopped." "Well, I should think so!" cried Margaret.
"There were three of them, Margaret," said Wesley, "that little fellow----" "Hyena, you mean," interpolated Margaret.
"Hyena," corrected Wesley gravely, "and another boy and a girl, all equally dirty and hungry.

The man was dead.