They had often exchanged glances with him.

Where ?...

When ?...
The memory of this man accompanied him as an obsession even to his ship without giving the slightest answer to his questioning.

Then, finding himself on board with Toni and the third officer, he again forgot it.
Upon going ashore on the following days, his memory invariably experienced the same phenomena.

The captain would be going through the city without any thought of that individual, but on entering the Cannebiere the same remembrance, followed by an inexplicable anxiety, would again surge up in his mind.
"I wonder where my Englishman is now," he would think.