People often wondered what nation the great financier, Francis Markrute, originally sprang from.

He was now a naturalized Englishman and he looked English enough.

He was slight and fair, and had an immaculately groomed appearance generally--which even the best of valets cannot always produce.

He wore his clothes with that quiet, unconscious air which is particularly English.

He had no perceptible accent--only a deliberate way of speaking.