She told me she could not find Walsh, and breakfast had been ready half an hour.

That is the reason why everything is late this morning," Mrs.Passford explained.
"But where is Walsh ?" inquired Christy.
"I am sure I do not know.

I called in the coachman, and he has been to his room and looked all over the place without finding him." "That is very odd," mused the officer, wondering whether this sudden disappearance had anything to do with the principal event of the preceding night.
"Peach says he has taken his valise with him, which indicates that he has gone for good." "Who is Peach ?" asked Christy, who had been at home so little that he hardly knew the names of the servants.
"He is the coachman.

I am not sorry that Walsh has gone, for he has saved me the trouble of discharging him.

Wilder, who had been with us so many years, took it into his head to enlist in the army, and I was not willing to persuade him to shirk his duty.