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"That's just it His bathing trunks are there"

"Well, he won't go far WITHOUT theone so far I can't locate hiet up

"Are you in ernest, Will?" she said "Do you one

without a Stich of clothes, and can't be found?"

Mrs Patten gave a sort of screach

"You don't think--oh Will, he's so tempermental You don't think he's

drowned himself?"

"No such luck," said Mrs Beecher, in a cold tone I hated her for it

True, he had decieved ht him In our to

conversations he had notme to beleive him

free to love "where he listed," as the poet says

"There are a few clues," said Mr Patten "He got out byAnd he took the manuscript with him, which he'd

hardly have done if he meant to drown himself Or even if, as we fear,

he had no Pockets He has sarettes out of a candy box,

which I did not supply him, and he left behind a bath towle that does

not, I think, belong to us"

"I should think he would have worn it," said Mrs Beecher, in a

scornfull tone