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His voice trailed off He had come a far way from the day he had walked

down the Street, and eyed Its poplars with appraising eyes--a far way Now

he had a son, and the child's ed that K should go back to town, returning late that night to

pick up Joe at a lonely point on the road, and to drive him to a railroad

station But, as it happened, he went back that afternoon

He had told Schwitter he would be at the hospital, and thehis own, conscious now and e fro has happened, and Tillie wants you I don't like to trouble you

again, but she--wants you"

K was rather gray of face by that ti had no sleep and little

food since the day before But he got into the rented et it--and turned it toward

Hillfoot But first of all he drove back to the Street, and walked without

ringing into Mrs McKee's

Neither a year's tie of state had

altered the "" house The ticket-punch still lay on the hat-rack in

the hall Through the rusty screen of the back parlorone viewed