"As Mr.Cardlestone, I understand, has said to you already--we have known men who went to Australia, and as this man was evidently wandering about the Temple, we thought it might have been one of them, come back.

But--we don't recognize him." "Couldn't recognize him," said Mr.Cardlestone.

"No!" They went away together arm in arm, and Breton looked at Spargo.
"As if anybody on earth ever fancied they'd recognize him!" he said.
"Well--what are you going to do now, Spargo?
I must go." Spargo, who had been digging his walking-stick into a crack in the pavement, came out of a fit of abstraction.
"I ?" he said.

"Oh--I'm going to the office." And he turned abruptly away, and walking straight off to the editorial rooms at the _Watchman_, made for one in which sat the official guardian of the editor.

"Try to get me a few minutes with the chief," he said.
The private secretary looked up.
"Really important ?" he asked.
"Big!" answered Spargo.