"Oh, nothing, only I want to find him," said Sam, and to avoid further questioning, he hurried on, pulling Songbird with him.
"If Tom was at the freight house he must have been taking a walk," suggested Songbird.
"Perhaps; but I am awfully worried about this."
It did not take the two students long to reach Ashton, and Sam went directly to the home of Doctor Havens, located in a grove of trees on a side street. A man was washing down the front piazza with a pail of water.
"Is the doctor in?" asked Sam.
"No, sir, he won't he in until about six o'clock," said the man.
"How long has he been gone, may I ask?"
"He went to the city directly after breakfast this morning, for a consultation with some other doctors."
"He hasn't any assistant?"
"No, sir, but he said if anybody needed a doctor in a hurry to call old Doctor Slate."