I think very likely you speak to villagers about politics--tariff reform and things like that." The big man laughed.

"Very well," he said.

"Now you," to Robert.
"I think you're a gentleman gipsy," said Robert.

"Like Lavengro.

Are you ?" "In a way," said the stranger, "but I shan't tell you till you've all guessed." Jack Rotheram then guessed that he was a spy, and this amused him immensely.
"In a kind of way I am that too," he answered.