He never thought of feeling anxious about his father.
At five o'clock the back door of the Edwards house opened.

Elmira came out with a shawl over her head and hurried up the hill.

"Oh, Jerome," she panted, when she got up to him.

"You must stop working, mother says, and go right straight off to the ten-acre lot.

Father 'ain't come home yet, an' we're dreadful worried about him.