Perhaps not . Then please not to see the logic of a great many arguments exactly like it , which you will hear before your beard is gray . The kind old dame came back at twelve , when school was over , to look at Tom : but there was no Tom there . She looked about for his footprints ; but the ground was so hard that there was no slot , as they say in dear old North Devon . And if you grow up to be a brave healthy man , you may know some day what no slot means , and know too , I hope , what a slot does mean -- a broad slot , with blunt claws , which makes a man put out his cigar , and set his teeth , and tighten his girths , when he sees it ; and what his rights mean , if he has them , brow , bay , tray , and points ; and see something worth seeing between Haddon Wood and Countisbury Cliff , with good Mr. Palk Collyns to show you the way , and mend your bones as fast as you smash them . Only when that jolly day comes , please do n't break your neck ; stogged in a mire you never will be , I trust ; for you are a heath-cropper bred and born . So the old dame went in again quite sulky , thinking that little Tom had tricked her with a false story , and shammed ill , and then run away again . But she altered her mind the next day . For , when Sir John and the rest of them had run themselves out of breath , and lost Tom , they went back again , looking very foolish . And they looked more foolish still when Sir John heard more of the story from the nurse ; and more foolish still , again , when they heard the whole story from Miss Ellie , the little lady in white . All she had seen was a poor little black chimney-sweep , crying and sobbing , and going to get up the chimney again . Of course , she was very much frightened : and no wonder . But that was all . The boy had taken nothing in the room ; by the mark of his little sooty feet , they could see that he had never been off the hearthrug till the nurse caught hold of him . It was all a mistake . So Sir John told Grimes to go home , and promised him five shillings if he would bring the boy quietly up to him , without beating him , that he might be sure of the truth . For he took for granted , and Grimes too , that Tom had made his way home . But no Tom came back to Mr. Grimes that evening ; and he went to the police-office , to tell them to look out for the boy . But no Tom was heard of . As for his having gone over those great fells to Vendale , they no more dreamed of that than of his having gone to the moon .
So Mr. Grimes came up to Harthover next day XXXXX a very sour face ; but when he got there , Sir John was over the hills and far away ; and Mr. Grimes had to sit in the outer servants ' hall all day , and drink strong ale to wash away his sorrows ; and they were washed away long before Sir John came back .
So as between for in like that to with without