The next night Hobart, an' them with him, just naturally skipped out.

So I didn't know but what the police might want him for something." "I don't know anything about that.

I just called on a private matter.
Where did he go to ?" "Hell, man, I didn't even know he was goin'." "Who did he have with him here--a family ?" "A woman 'bout his age I should say, an' a younger one.

I didn't see 'em only from the window; didn't get no sight o' the girl's face at all, but could tell the way she walked she was young.

They didn't have nothin' with 'em; that's all my stuff in the house there." Feeling the uselessness of trying to learn anything more, West thanked him, and returned to the taxi.
"Back to the Club," he ordered briefly, and settled into his seat to think..