"He isn't living cheap for economy's sake.

You know he doesn't drink." "Yes.

I have made inquiries about his habits." "Still they say he opens wine for his friends now and then, drinking ginger ale, or something of that sort, while they are surrounding fizz, for which he settles.

And he is liberal in other ways." "He is an enigma in some ways." "I have heard a wild sort of story about him, but I don't take much stock in it.

It is the invention of some fertile brain." "What is it ?" "Oh, a lot of trash about his having traveled all over the world, been captured by pirates and cannibals, fought gorillas and tigers, shot elephants and so forth.