'My father? I asked him, and he could tell me nothing. Why did you not leave us some clue by which to find you?'
'Clue?' said the colonel. 'What do you mean by clue? I have not hid myself.'
'But if your friends do not know where you are?'
'Your father could have told you.'
'He did not know your address, sir. I asked him for it repeatedly.'
'Why did he not give it to you?' said the colonel, throwing up his head like a war-horse.
'He said you had not given it to him.'
'That is true since we came to this place. I have had no intercourse with Mr. Dallas for a long time; not since we moved into our present quarters; and our address here he does not know, I suppose. He ceased writing to me, and of course I ceased writing to him. From you we have never heard at all, since we came to New York.'
'But I wrote, sir,' said Pitt, in growing embarrassment and bewilderment. 'I wrote repeatedly.'
'What do you suppose became of your letters?'