"That is what I hope to find out. There is something in connection with the matter which you boys have failed to explain, that will make it all very simple. Have either of you a copy of that advertisement?"
"No, aunt Dorcas, I wasn't achin' to lug such a thing as that 'round with me."
"Does it still appear in the papers?"
"It did yesterday mornin', 'cause Dan showed it to me, an' his name and Plums's were 'longside of mine."
"Then George must go to Weehawken and buy one of those papers."
Master Plummer looked up in dismay. A six-mile walk was to him such exercise as amounted almost to torture, and he said, petulantly:
"What good will it do for you to read it in the paper, when we can tell you every word?"
"Indeed, I don't know; but there must be something which you have failed to remember."
"Truly, there isn't, aunt Dorcas. I said over the words jest as they was printed, 'cause I'd be sure to remember a thing like that," Joe replied.
"I am set, when I make up my mind, as all old maids are," the little woman said, grimly, "and it seems to me absolutely necessary I should see that advertisement. Now, if George thinks he cannot walk to Weehawken, I must go myself."