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`` Exactly , '' says Colonel Tom . `` I got to Chicago at six o'clock of that very day . And I went at once to the address in Lucy 's letter . I got there between seven and eight o'clock . She was gone . My thought was that you must have got wind of my coming and persuaded her to leave with you in order to avoid me -- although I did n't see how you could know when I would get there , either , when I thought it over . '' `` And you have never seen her since , '' says Armstrong , pondering .