In fact, he is an actor--perhaps you've heard of him?
Mr.Bassett Oliver." He was looking narrowly at the girl as he spoke, and she, too, looked narrowly at him out of a pair of grey eyes of more than ordinary intelligence and perception.

And at the famous actor's name she started a little and a faint colour stole over her cheeks.
"Mr.Bassett Oliver!" she exclaimed in a clear, cultured voice.

"My mother and I saw Mr.Oliver at the Northborough Theatre on Friday evening.

Do you mean that he--" "I mean--to put it bluntly--that Bassett Oliver is lost," answered Copplestone.

"He came to this place yesterday, Sunday, morning, to look round; he lunched at the 'Admiral's Arms,' he went out, after a chat with the landlady, and he's never been seen since.