"Just a man—he's going home one night——"
"Goin' home, where from?" demanded William.
"That doesn't come into the story," said the young man irritably. "He was just going home."
"All right," said William soothingly. "Only, if he was goin' home he must 'a' been somewhere, an' I jus' wondered where he'd been to be coming home from."
"Well, as he's coming home he gets a message that a girl—a girl——" the young man hesitated.
"The girl wot he's in love with?" supplied William earnestly.
"Er—yes," said the young man. "He gets a message that she's in danger and he must go to her at once, so he follows the man, you see——"
"Which follows which?" said William judicially.
"The man the story begins with——"
"The one wot you didn't know where he was goin' home from?"