And Brooks suddenly remembered that he did not even know his name.
"You will forgive me," he said, also rising, "if I have seemed a little dazed.

I am very grateful to you for coming.

I have always wanted more than anything in the world to meet some one who saw my father after he left England.

There is so much which even now seems mysterious with regard to his disappearance from the world." "I fear that you will never discover more than you have done from me," was the quiet reply.

"Your father had been living for years in profound solitude when I found him.