"We will see about that," said Billy, angrily, "and when I do find him and deliver the note, I'm going to tell him just what I think of him."
"He doesn't care what you think of him. Thoughts never hurt any one but their thinkers."
"That is too deep for me," said Billy.
"There it is," said Mumbledy Peg in disgust, "when I do say something sensible, you don't understand me."
"Then you won't help me to find Bogie Man?"
"Not an inch, and I will say further that if all our leading citizens had not left for Mars in search of work, you wouldn't be alive in this town for three minutes."
"I'm not trying to harm you," said Billy.
"We won't discuss the matter further. Good night," and Mumbledy Peg drove himself right into the ground and disappeared, leaving Billy alone in the dark street.
"I can't get him back unless I pull him out with my teeth, I suppose," said Billy, "and I'm not going to try that. Now, what am I to do without a guide? It is fearfully dark and lonely, and I seem to be as far from seeing Bogie Man as ever. I wonder what street this is?"
He tried to see the sign on the lamp post. Of course the lamp was not lit, for they never are in Never Was until daylight.