The question was evidently beyond him.
"I can assign no sort of reason for it," he said, "unless he has some hope of being able to get you out of England for a time." "I don't see how that could benefit him," I replied.

"I am connected with no case in which he has any sort of interest." "You never can tell," the old gentleman replied.

"From what I know of him, Gideon Hayle was always----" "Gideon what ?" I cried, springing to my feet.

"Did I understand you to say Gideon Hayle ?" "That's the name of the young man of whom I have been speaking to you," he replied.

"But what makes you so excited." "Because I can understand everything now ?" I declared.