"No, I have none. I was going to a hotel in Chicago—which one I hadn't decided yet."
"Where are you coming from?"
"From Asia."
"That's hardly an address, Mr. Eaton!"
"I can give you no address abroad. I had no fixed address there. I was traveling most of the time. You could not reach me or place me by means of any city or hotel there. I arrived in Seattle by the Asiatic steamer and took this train."
"Ah! you came on the Tamba Maru."
Connery made note of this, as he had made note of all the other questions and answers. Then he said something to the Pullman conductor, who replied in the same low tone; what they said was not audible to Eaton.
"You can tell us at least where your family is, Mr. Eaton," Connery suggested.
"I have no family."
"Friends, then?"