It has been all stored there ever since," he explained.
"For all these years ?" exclaimed Davidson, thinking how long we all had known Heyst flitting from tree to tree in a wilderness.
"Even longer," said Heyst, who had understood very well.
This seemed to imply that he had been wandering before he came under our observation.

In what regions?
And what early age?
Mystery.

Perhaps he was a bird that had never had a nest.
"I left school early," he remarked once to Davidson, on the passage.

"It was in England.

A very good school.