"Is that you?
We were coming to look for you.

Did you get wet ?" Mr.Willetts threw his weight against the door and managed to close it.
Then Minnie found her friend's hand and led her through the dark hall to the parlor where the judge sat, placidly reading by a student-lamp.
Lige chuckled as they left the kitchen.

"I guess you didn't try too hard to shut that door, Harkless," he said, and then, when they came into the lighted room, "Why, where _is_ Harkless ?" he asked.

"Didn't he come with us from the kitchen ?" "No," answered Helen, faintly; "he's gone." She sank upon the sofa and drew her hand across her eyes as if to shade them from too sudden light.
"Gone!" The judge dropped his book and stared across the table at the girl.

"Gone! When ?" "Ten minutes--five--half an hour--I don't know.