“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.”