Fact.
He's a hermit in the wilderness now.

But what can this manager get to eat there?
It beats me." Sometimes a stranger would inquire with natural curiosity: "Who?
What manager ?" "Oh, a certain Swede,"-- with a sinister emphasis, as if he were saying "a certain brigand." "Well known here.

He's turned hermit from shame.
That's what the devil does when he's found out." Hermit.

This was the latest of the more or less witty labels applied to Heyst during his aimless pilgrimage in this section of the tropical belt, where the inane clacking of Schomberg's tongue vexed our ears.
But apparently Heyst was not a hermit by temperament.

The sight of his land was not invincibly odious to him.