Perhaps these were his attempts to break out.

If so, they were failures.

The enchantment must have been an unbreakable one.

The manager--the man who heard the exclamation--had been so impressed by the tone, fervour, rapture, what you will, or perhaps by the incongruity of it that he had related the experience to more than one person.
"Queer chap, that Swede," was his only comment; but this is the origin of the name "Enchanted Heyst" which some fellows fastened on our man.
He also had other names.

In his early years, long before he got so becomingly bald on the top, he went to present a letter of introduction to Mr.Tesman of Tesman Brothers, a Sourabaya firm--tip-top house.