He set there a while after that--I was talkin'' to Blake.

I dunno where he went to.

I was--" "'S that you, Dell?
Did yuh find 'im ?" The Countess came flapping down the path in a faded, red kimono.

"What under the shinin' sun's went with him, do yuh s'pose?
Yuh never know what a day's got up its sleeve--'n I always said it.

Man plans and God displans--the poor little tad'll be scairt plumb to death, out all alone in the dark--" "Oh, for heaven's sake shut up!" cried the tortured Little Doctor, and fled past her up the path as though she had some hope of running away from the tormenting thoughts also.