He'd been in foreign parts, sir, and is likely to go out there again, so I gathered from what he said.

It is a pity there are not more like him." This was news, indeed, and I pricked up my ears on hearing it.
Having learnt all I was likely to discover, I thanked the man for his kindness and left the cemetery.

If I had done nothing else, I had at least satisfied myself upon one point, and this was the fact that Gideon Hayle had been in London within the week.

Under such circumstances it should not be very difficult to obtain his address.

But I knew from experience that when things seemed to be running most smoothly, they are as much liable to a breakdown as at any other time--sometimes even more so.