"I tried to find you, all the neighboring towns from the small villages to the larger cities. I even stepped into that hovel and asked that mad man Gaunt, when I'd heard he'd returned, what had become of you but he'd no idea Merope had been pregnant." Tom Sr. a look of pleading had twisted his features and Tom Jr. wasn't sure what to make of the way his chest constricted and his throat began to swell. "Where did she stow you?"