"Mr.Dodge, I can't begin to tell you how sorry I am that this scene was necessary." "I feel sure of your sympathy.

Prescott, and of yours, too, Holmes.
Thank you both," replied the banker.

"You are both fine, manly young fellows.

I wish I had been favored with a son like either of you.

Now, I have no son!" Dick and Greg got away as unobtrusively as they could.
Bert Dodge did try to go home to see his Mother, but, by his father's orders, he was put out of the house by two men servants.
Immediately after that Bert vanished from Gridley.