"Have you been alone since morning?"
"Not quite all the time. I had quite a long call from a stranger."
"A stranger!" repeated Luke, suspiciously.
"What was his appearance?"
The old man described Burns, and Luke knew him at once.
"What did he say to you?"
"That reminds me--he said he knew the boy whom Horace has put in the store--young Ray."
"Did he?"
"Yes, and he doesn't speak well of him."
"What does he say about him?"