'I guess there's nobody hain't forgotten you, you'll find,' said the man, wiping his scythe blade with a wisp of grass; needlessly, for he had just whetted it; but it gave him an opportunity to look at the figure beside him.
'More than I deserve,' said Pitt. 'But I seem not to find some of my old friends. Do you know where is the family that used to live here?'
'Gone away, I guess.'
'I see they have gone away; but where have they gone?'
'Dunno, no more'n the dead,' said the man, beginning to mow again.
'You know whom I am speaking of?—Colonel Gainsborough.'
'I know. He's gone—that's all I kin tell ye.'
'Who takes care of the place?'
'The place? If you mean the house, nobody takes keer of it, I guess. There ain't nobody in it. The land hez as good keer as it ever hed. The squoire, he sees to that.'
'My father, do you mean?'