Reminds me o' Steve Nuckles.

His head is full of ignorance but he'll know how to get home when the time comes." "My stars! How we're hurrying!" Harry exclaimed at length.
"I didn't realize it--I'm so taken up with the thought of getting back," said Abe.

"It's as if my friends had a rope around me and were pulling it." So under the lights of heaven, speaking in the silence of the night, of impenetrable mysteries, they journeyed on toward the land of plenty.
"It's as still as a graveyard," Harry whispered when they had climbed the bluff by the mill long after midnight and were near the little village.
"They're all buried in sleep," said Abe.

"We'll get Rutledge out of bed.
He'll give us a shake-down somewhere." His loud rap on the door of the tavern signalized more than a desire for rest in the weary travelers, for just then a cycle of their lives had ended..