No one bothered to look at her twice, the reigning atmosphere of fear and uncertainty being partly responsible. Why would people in a robbery scene, with one of the armed and dangerous thieves still unseen, be interested in holding back a sickly old woman with rough white hair, who obviously had long passed her prime? How wrong they were. They missed it. That woman could have been anyone. She could have been just a woman who came to the bank to cash a check or something and got strained by nature to visit the lavatory. She could have been just anyone.
Perhaps even the cops’ target. The cops emerged from the female lavatory with disappointment and frustration evident on their faces.
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“He went there!” a traumatized staff member of the bank kept telling the cops. The cops did not say a
