There is nothing." Lieutenant Sutch was rather at a loss.

The lad's loneliness made a strong appeal to him.

For lonely the boy could not but be, set apart as he was, no less unmistakably in mind as in feature, from his father and his father's fathers.

Yet what more could he do?
His tact again came to his aid.

He took his card-case from his pocket.
"You will find my address upon this card.