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At breakfast time the next morning, John Duncan was among the missing. His mother had charged him, when he first got up, to study his Sunday school lesson, which, in the extraordinary excitement of the preceding evening, had been neglected. Paul searched for him in their chamber, and in all the other apartments of the house; but he was not to be found.
Neither Paul nor his mother had any fears that he had run away or committed suicide; so that his absence produced more of indignation than alarm.