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Anyway , everybody will have to know it before night . I took over the restaurant as you suggested , and posted some of the men from the bank that I knew I could trust about the doors . But there was hardly any use in doing it . '' `` The restaurant stocks up in the afternoon , as most of its business is in the morning and at noon . It only carries a day 's stock of foodstuffs , and the -- the cataclysm , or whatever it was , came at three o'clock . There is practically nothing in the place . We could n't make sandwiches for half the women that are caught with us , let alone the men .