CHAPTER VI.
THE WAY IS PREPARED.
"Where do you suppose Thomas is ?" said Mrs.Somers, as she glanced at the clock, which indicated half-past nine.
"I don't know," replied John.

"He can't be a great ways off.

I saw him in front of the squire's house when the committee went in." "The boy's gone down to the Harbor again with the rest of the folks, talking about the war," added gran'ther Greene, as he rose from his chair, and hobbled into his chamber adjoining the kitchen.
At ten o'clock, the mother began to be a little uneasy; and at eleven, even John had some fears that all was not well with his brother.

Neither of them was able to suggest anything that could possibly have happened to the absentee.

There had been no battle fought, and so nobody could have been killed.