"See any one?" eagerly asked the boy.
"Not a soul. And you?"
"I've searched this place, but no one is here."
"Then where did they disappear to so mysteriously?"
"Blessed if I know."
"You heard two human voices here, didn't you?"
"Of course I did."
"Have you thoroughly examined this place?"
"Every inch of it, and couldn't find them."
Old King Brady made a round of the room and came back.