And let's be getting back, for your mother's anxious about you, and the man's death has upset her--he went all at once, she said, while she was with him." We all got on our bicycles again and set off homewards, and Chisholm wheeled alongside me and we dropped behind a little.
"This is a strange affair," said he, in a low voice; "and it's like to be made stranger by this man's sudden death.

I'd been looking to him to get news of this other man.

What do you know of Mr.Gilverthwaite, now ?" "Nothing!" said I.
"But he's lodged with you seven weeks ?" said he.
"If you'd known him, sergeant," I answered, "you'd know that he was this sort of man--you'd know no more of him at the end of seven months than you would at the end of seven weeks, and no more at the end of seven years than at the end of seven months.

We knew nothing, my mother and I, except that he was a decent, well-spoken man, free with his money and having plenty of it, and that his name was what he called it, and that he said he'd been a master mariner.

But who he was, or where he came from, I know no more than you do." "Well, he'll have papers, letters, something or other that'll throw some light on matters, no doubt ?" he suggested.