Once William asked, hoarsely, "Any idea which way ?" and Barney shook his head.
"What time did she go ?" "Some time this forenoon." William groaned.
The horse was nearly harnessed when Tommy Ray came running out from the store, and beckoned to Barney.

"Rose says she see her going up the turnpike this morning," he said, in a low voice.

"She was up in her chamber that looks over the turnpike, and she see somebody goin' up the turnpike.

She thought it looked like Rebecca, but she supposed it must be Mis' Jim Sloane.

It must have been Rebecca." "What time was it ?" William asked, thrusting his white face between them.