I had the feeling that he wished I had not told him.
At last he looked up.

"I suppose, now that we have found this out, Jotham will have to be told.

They are his oxen, of course, and we should not feel right if we were to keep this from him.

It wouldn't be quite the neighborly thing to do--to conceal it.

So you had better go over and tell him." Almost every one likes to carry news, whether good or bad; and within fifteen minutes I had reached the Edwards farmhouse.