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Please remain in town where I can see you , and if anything comes up I shall write you . '' Lon gave him the address of a man near the river , and Everett allowed his client to go . Some force within him had almost impelled him to ask the squatter concerning Screech Owl , and he breathed more freely when he thought that he had not given way to the temptation to learn something about his own people . * * * * * At eight o'clock that evening Everett met Mr. and Mrs. Brimbecomb at the station . He could not comprehend the feeling that his foster parents had become strangers to him . He kissed his mother , shook hands with Mr. Brimbecomb , and followed them into the carriage . He went to bed content with the knowledge that their steamer would sail two days later , and that for six months he would be alone .