“Where?”
She shook her head:
“No one knows, Mr. Noll.”
Noll went to the little bed, flung himself down beside it, and sobbed like a child....
The landlady’s daughter slipped a-tiptoe from the room and brought down the young fellow’s mother.
Caroline went and seated herself on the bed beside the lad, and stroked the handsome head with her gentle fingers:
“Ah, Noll,” said she—“so you too are to taste the bitters of life early!”
The young fellow stayed by the bed all night, and would not be comforted.
And Caroline most wisely stayed with him.