"
"Humph!" muttered Braddock. "He is now fifty, and must have
changed in thirty years. You'll never recognize him."
"Oh, I think so," said the Peruvian smoothly. "His eyes were
peculiarly blue and full of light. Also, he had a scar on the
right temple from a blow which he received in a street riot in
which I also was concerned. Finally, gentlemen, Vasa loved a
peon girl on my father's estate, and she induced him to have the
sun encircled by a serpent--a Peruvian symbol--tattooed on his
left wrist. With all these marks, and with my memory for faces,
which never yet has failed me, I have no doubt but what I shall
recognize the man."
"And then?"
"And then I shall have him arrested"
Hope shrugged his square shoulders. He had not much belief in
Don Pedro's boasted royal memory, and did not think that he would
recognize a young sailor of twenty in what would certainly be a
grizzled old salt of fifty years. However, it was possible that
the man might be right in his surmise, since Vasa alone could
have known about the emeralds. The only doubt was whether he
would have waited for thirty years before looting the mummy.
Archie said nothing of these thoughts, as they would only serve
to prolong an unprofitable discussion.
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