"That is the man."
"What of him? I thought they had taken him to a sanitarium, and that he was getting better."
"So he was getting better—in fact he was almost well, so Nat said. But now what do you think has happened?"
"What?" came from all of the other boys.
"He has disappeared."
"Disappeared?"
"That's it. He has run away, and nobody knows where he went to."