Colton didn't shed any tears and young Carver seemed to be pretty down at the mouth." "But what makes you think he has gone for good ?" I asked.
"Why, Alvin Baker was there, same as he usually is, and he managed to be nigh enough to hear the last words--if there had been any." "And there were not ?" "Nothin' to amount to much.

Nothin' about comin' back, anyhow.

Colton said somethin' about bein' remembered to the young feller's ma, and Carver said, 'Thanks,' and that was all.

Alvin said 'twas pretty chilly.
They've got it all figgered out at the post-office; you see, Carver was to come back to the meetin' house and pick up his princess, and he never come.

She started without him and got run away with.