The next morning, Huck finds the old man lying on the ground, bleeding from a cut he received in the kitchen when he was a young man. He tells the man to hurry home because he has nowhere else to go. The old man tells Huck to make sure he comes home before dark because he used to live alone with an old man who had passed away. The man had given Huck a place to live and Huck was sad that he had lost that place.