Then I went up to where he boarded, and the woman told me he'd been gone some months--she didn't know where.

He left no word, and she forgot to get the name of the express that came for his trunk.

He is down with sickness somewheres, or he'd have showed up.

He was not himself at all when I last saw him--that's long before you got back from Canada.

He's done nothing but walk the streets since he come ashore." Stephen stopped, as if it were too painful for him to continue, looked around the room, noting its bareness, and asked, with a break in his voice: "Where do you put her ?" "In the little room.