"Six miles," answered Denton, who had enquired.
"May I ask if you live in Kelso?"
"No, sir," answered Denton.
"Perhaps you can tell me if there is a hotel there?"
"I don't know."
By this time the stranger's evident disinclination to talk had attracted Oliver's attention.He looked inquisitively at the man with green glasses.
"There's something about that man's voice that sounds familiar," he said to himself. "Where can I have seen him before?"
Still, the red wig and the glasses put him off the scent.
Denton grew uneasy under the boy's fixed gaze.
"Does he suspect me!" he thought. "It wouldn't do for me to speak again."