I read it slowly, because I was not very good at reading, and turned my eyes west--where my mother had gone.

I had lost her! How could any one be found who had disappeared into that region which swallowed up thousands every month?
I had no clue.

I did not believe that Rucker would try to help her find me.

She had been kidnaped away from me.

I threw myself down on the dead grass, and found the worn-out shoe I had picked up in the closet.