occupation, in the meantime answerin' me nothin', not a word, till I declare it stunted me, his looks wuz so cold and resolved and sort o' blood curdlin', and his mean so determined that I wuz positively afraid to tackle him.
But he had his thoughts, and while I wuz there one mornin' it wuz found that Cicero wuz missin', he wuz searched for one day and two nights; Tamer, in the meantime, fallin' from one hysterick into another, the third day he wuz found in the woods milds from there, on top of a big rock; he had built a fortification in front of it, and barricaded himself from enemies, had built a sort of an outlook in a tree nigh by, where he could look out for prowlin' foes, and wuz found there smokin' cigarettes and readin' "The Lone Bandit of the Haunted Woods" when he wuz discovered. He wuz made to go home, though he rebelled and wuz moody for days afterwards.
