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At noon Fernald came back with his money , and Barclay refused to take it . The town knew that also . Barclay did not step out of the teller 's cage during the whole day , but Lige Bemis was his herald , and through him Barclay had Dolan refuse to give Fernald protection for his money unless Fernald would consent to be locked up in jail with it . In ten minutes the town knew that story , and at three o'clock Barclay posted a notice saying the bank would remain open until nine o'clock that night , to accommodate any depositors who desired their money , but that it would be closed for three days following until after the funeral of the president of the bank . The next day he sat in the back room of the bank and received privately nearly all the money that had been taken out Monday , and several thousand dollars besides that came through fear that Fernald 's cash would attract robbers from the rough country to the West who might loot the town . To urge in that class of depositors , Barclay asked Sheriff Dolan to detail a guard of fifty deputies about the bank day and night , and the day following the cash began coming in with mildew on it , and Adrian Brownwell appeared that night with a thousand dollars of old bank-notes , issued in the fifties , that smelled of the earth . Thursday John limped up and down the street inviting first one business man and then another into the bank to help him count cash and straighten out his balance .