"Didenhover's cleared out," he burst forth at length abruptly.
"What!" said Fleda and Barby at once, the broom and the biscuits standing still.
"Mr. Didenhover."
"What of him?"
"He has tuk himself off out o" town."
"Where to?"
"I can't tell you where teu--he ain't coming back, 'tain't likely."
"How do you know?"
"'Cause he's tuk all his traps and went, and he said farming didn't pay and he wa'n't a going to have nothin' more to deu with it;--he telled Mis' Simpson so--he lived to Mis' Simpson's; and she telled Mr. Ten Eyck."
"Are you sure, Philetus?"