"In the apple-boat."
"Wal, I 'm stumped. How long did you stay there?"
"Nearly four weeks. Why?"
"Why? Because I 'd been doing detective work on my own account. (How my heart sank at those words; Mr. Ewart had not attempted to find me then!). I 've been doin' it for the last six weeks. This is the third time I 've been in New York."
"But not here?"
"Yes, here—in this very house. I give Mis' Beaseley the credit; she knows how to hold her tongue. I see she ain't told you."
"No. But you have n't been here since I 've been in the house?"
"No, I just got here to-day."
"How did you happen to come this third time, Cale?"
"I come because the Doctor told me to try it again here—"