I made purty good time, and in a couple of days I was in Atlanta.

I knowed the doctor must of gone back into some branch of the medicine game--the bottles told me that.

I knowed it must be something that he needed some special kind of bottles fur, too, or he wouldn't of had them shipped all that distance, but would of bought them nearer.

I seen I was a dern fool fur rushing off and not inquiring what kind of bottles, so I could trace what he was into easier.
It's hard work looking fur a man in a good-sized town.

I hung around hotel lobbies and places till I was tired of it, thinking he might come in.