She said, “No.”

“The name has some association for you? Come now, let’s not beat around the bush.”

She said, “My father mentioned a Hocksley in one of his letters.”

“How long ago?”

“Oh, perhaps twenty years.”

Karr laughed mirthlessly. “Hardly the same Hocksley,” he said.

Tragg didn’t shift his eyes. “You were a child at the time?”

“Yes.”

“How old?”

“Seven.”