"That is not true."
"It is not true?"
"It is not true," repeated the young man.
"Then I have been misinformed?"
"Probably not."
"What do you mean?"
"I do not claim to be a baron, but I am next heir to a barony; at present an elder brother is the baron."
"Then you are not a fraud?"
"It would be dangerous for any one to intimate that I have at any time made a false claim."
Jack was delighted at the turn the affair had taken. Another was eliciting facts that our hero most desired to have made clear.