Could Mr. Wood tell them anything about him?
Mr. Wood looked very thoughtful when he got this letter, then he said,
"Harry, how long is it since Barron ran away?"
"About eight weeks," said Mr. Harry.
"That's strange," said Mr. Wood. "The money these English people sent
him would get to Boston just a few days after he left here. He is not
the man to leave it long unclaimed. Something must have happened to him.
Where do you suppose he would go from Penhollow?"
"I have no idea, sir," said Mr. Harry.
"And how would he go?" said Mr. Wood. "He did not leave Riverdale
Station, because he would have been spotted by some of his creditors."
"Perhaps he would cut through the woods to the Junction," said Mr.
Harry.
"Just what he would do," said Mr. Wood, slapping his knee. "I'll be
driving over there to-morrow to see Thompson, and I'll make inquiries."
Mr. Harry spoke to his father the next night when he came home, and
asked him if he had found out anything. "Only this," said Mr. Wood.
"There's no one answering to Barron's description who has left Riverdale
Junction within a twelvemonth. He must have struck some other station.
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