"You can imagine no reason, then, for my father leaving England for good?"
"Certainly not!"
"You know of no reason why he should have abandoned his trip to
Australia and gone to Canada?"
"None!"
"His doing so is as inexplicable to you as to me?"
"Entirely."
"You have never doubted Lord Arranmore's story of his death?"
"Never. Why should I?"
"One more question," Brooks said. "Do you know that lately I have met a traveller—a man who visited Lord Arranmore in Canada, and who declared to his certain knowledge there was no other human dwelling-house within fifty miles of Lord Arranmore's cabin?"
"He was obviously mistaken."