"How did you know me," Levi asked Blind Benner as they went from the side-show to the big tent.
"I don't know how; yer didn't speak and yer didn't laugh. Hunch was bagpipin', an' all at once somethin' pulled me an' I follered, an' when I got closer I knowed it was you."
"You have a bad cough, Benner," Levi remarked sympathetically, as he listened to the blind man struggling for breath.
"Yes; I ketched it soon after we left the Sisters. It goes hard with me sometimes, but mostly it's only a little hack."
Here he caught Levi's arm and asked in a whisper:
"Did yer hear anything of him?"
"Yes, we heard something of him, but we did not find him."
"Yer oughter hed me with yer from the first; I'd hev found him. Bill an' Hunch an' me's been huntin' yer all this time."
"That's why you left Three-Sisters and joined the circus?"
"Yes, we thought yer would come to the show when yer seen Bill's and Hunch's names on the bills."