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was all she knew about him. He was a good fellow so far as she knew.

Then he left to marry. They traced him down to where he lived with his wife. He'd married a girl whose name I don't remember and they had lived in the same little tenement ever since they'd been married, which was five years or so since the time he'd left the boarding house. There were no complaints there. The wife seemed to be a decent little woman, as they called her. They had a child. That was that.

So there was nothing against him. In the course of their incuiries, they had discovered that he was not an American citizen. I supposed they learned that from Moore-McCormack. They found that he was an Australian, that he was born in Melbourne, I think, or some town in Australia. That was all that they knew about him.

All that didn't seem at all alarming. The fact that he was Australian born, with a British background, to some extent accounted for this sort of humble attitude, poor dressing, no braggadocio, no bravado about him, which is rather uncommon in an American who steps forward to be a spokesman. It accounted for his “humble before his betters” attitude.