However, we found it, finally, 'way off amongst a nest of brick houses and peddler carts and children, and it wa'n't the 'Wayfarer's Inn' no more, but was down in the shippin' list as the 'Golconda House.' Jonadab said the neighborhood had changed some sence he was there, but he guessed we'd better chance it, 'cause the board was cheap.
"We had a nine-by-ten room up aloft somewheres, and there we set down on the edge of the bed and a chair to take account of stock, as you might say.
"'Now, I tell you, Jonadab,' says I; 'we don't want to waste no time, and we've got the day afore us.

What do you say if we cruise along the water front for a spell?
There's ha'f a dozen Orham folks aboard diff'rent steamers that hail from this port, and 'twouldn't be no more'n neighborly to call on 'em.

There's Silas Baker's boy, Asa--he's with the Savannah Line and he'd be mighty glad to see us.

And there's--' "But Jonadab held up his hand.

He'd been mysterious as a baker's mince pie ever sence we started, hintin' at somethin' he'd got to do when we'd got to New York.