d learn of our guest.</p>
            <p><a name="id380415"><!--anchor--></a>He was a very silent man by custom. All day he hung round the cove or
            upon the cliffs with a brass telescope; all evening he sat in a corner
            of the parlour next the fire and drank rum and water very strong. Mostly
            he would not speak when spoken to, only look up sudden and fierce and
            blow through his nose like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came
            about our house soon 