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The bane of life that day had been the London reporters. The Red Lion Inn at Chelfordbury was already filled with them, and not an hour passed that one did not make his way to the house in a vain endeavour to interview the Second Son. One intercepted him in Elm Drive, and to him, as to the rest, he gave the same reply.
"You boys can't expect me to tell you any more than I already know," he said, at bay. "My brother has disappeared, but I believe he is still alive."