I think he just went off in the woods.
You know yourself it's in the Handbook that trees are good companions.
He just wanted to be alone.

I bet he wasn't a hundred yards from camp.
Skinny's kind of queer, you know that." Then Mr.Ellsworth just laid down the key and put stamps on two or three letters and said "All right, Roy, just see that these get mailed, will you ?" He didn't say what he was going to do and I guessed he wasn't going to do anything.

And even suppose he did, what was the harm?
But just the same I felt awful queer and shaky.

I guess maybe it was because I couldn't come right out and tell him the plain truth about that key..