“That so? Where else did you try? Duncan’s office?”

“We did, and no word of him there.”

“Try Clancy’s boarding-house?”

“Yes, and no word.”

“Try––h-m––the Anchorage?”

“Oh, Joe, you don’t think he’s been loafing there since?”

“No, I don’t. And yet after the way he got turned down yesterday, you know––there’s no telling what a man might do.”

“Well, Will looked in there, too.”

“You fat little fox! Why didn’t you say that at first? And no word?”

“No.”