In that direction the nearest house was almost a mile away.

I remember I was out of breath, and the light growing dim before I got to it.

I went on.

It seemed to me that I had gone nearly far enough to reach my destination when I heard a buggy coming behind me.
"Hello!" a voice called.
I turned and looked up at Dug Draper, in a single buggy, dressed in his Sunday suit.
"Is it much further to where the Dunkelbergs live ?" I asked.
"The Dunkelbergs?
Who be they ?" It seemed to me very strange that he didn't know the Dunkelbergs.
"Where Sally Dunkelberg lives." That was a clincher.

He laughed and swore and said: "Git in here, boy.