I suppose you know everybody ?" he added, warming up as he approached his subject.
"On the contrary," Hunterleys answered, "I am almost a stranger here.

I have been staying further down the coast." "Happen to know any one of the name of Grex ?" Lane asked, with elaborate carelessness.
Hunterleys made no immediate reply.

He seemed to be considering the name.
"Grex," he repeated, knocking the ash from his cigarette.

"Rather an uncommon name, isn't it?
Why do you ask ?" "Oh, I've seen an elderly man and a young lady about once or twice," Lane explained.

"Very interesting-looking people.