He'd been to see Elvira Carney.

They had plans to go to a dance that night----" "Close your lips!" said Mrs.Comstock in a voice of deadly quiet.
"You know I wouldn't dare open them if I wasn't telling you the truth.
I can prove what I say.

I was coming from Reeds.

It was hot in the woods and I stopped at Carney's as I passed for a drink.

Elvira's bedridden old mother heard me, and she was so crazy for some one to talk with, I stepped in a minute.