And he earned none.

From whom did he get it ?" Sylvia shook her head.
"I do not know." "Had he no other relations, no friends ?" "None who would have made him an allowance." Chayne pondered over that question.

For in the answer to it he was convinced he would find the explanation of the mystery.

If money was given to Walter Hine, who had apparently no rich relations but his grandfather, and certainly no rich friends, it would have been given with some object.

To discover the giver and his object--that was the problem.
"Think! Did he never speak of any one ?" Sylvia searched her memories.
"No," she said.