He searched both of them, and all around them, and then wholly tired, and greatly disgusted, he went home and to bed.

He decided that Jimmy HAD gone to Mrs.Dolan's and that kindly woman had relented and taken him in.

Of course that was where he was.
Dannie was up early in the morning.

He wanted to have the work done before Mary and Jimmy came home.

He fed the stock, milked, built a fire, and began cleaning the stables.