You have no idea what it means to us." "Since you are so interested in him I am sorry to have to say that I do not know very much.

You see he had very little to do with us.

As I have said, he turned up while our predecessors were here.

From what I heard about him from Gregory, he gathered that he was a tall, thin man, who had come through from Pekin by way of Yunnan." "Are you sure it was from Yunnan ?" "That's what they told me," said Grantham.

"Since then I have heard that he was on his way from Pekin to Burmah, and that his coolies had robbed him of all he possessed." "You don't happen to remember his name, I suppose!" The blind man tried to ask the question calmly, but his voice failed him.
"As far as I remember his name was George Bertram," Grantham answered.
There was a pause for a few seconds, after which the blind man began again-- "He didn't tell you, I suppose, whether he had any money about him ?" "He hadn't a red cent," said Grantham.