“No; I lived in England when I was a young man.”
“What made you leave it?”
“Why do you ask me that?” demanded old Ben.
“Oh, if it’s a secret, don’t tell me,” said Tony.
Who said it was a secret?” said the old man irritably.
Nobody that I know of.”
“Then why do you ask me such questions?”
“Don’t answer anything you don’t want to,” said our hero. “I only asked for the sake of saying something.”
“I don’t mind telling,” said old Ben, more calmly. “It was because I was so poor. I thought I could do better in America.”
“Do you own this place?”