What does jem do when dill runs away from home?

Dill has run away from home because his mother and new father did not pay enough attention to him. He took a train from Meridian to Maycomb Junction, fourteen miles away, and covered the remaining distance on foot and on the back of a cotton wagon. Jem goes down the hall and tells Atticus.

a omg *hides wit stranger*

im not 100 percent sure but i think its a