"He's gone.
He went out right after breakfast this morning, and he hasn't come back.
"After he went out, Tom saw him down by the line wall," she continued hurriedly.

"We thought perhaps he had gone to the Corners by the meadow-brook path.

But he didn't come to dinner.

We are beginning to wonder where he is.

Tom's just gone to the Corners to see if he is there." "Why, no," we said.