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BETWEEN THE TWO MEN.
FOR A MOMENT, alone in the room, where none could see or hear them, Joam Garral and Torres looked at each other without uttering a word.

Did the adventurer hesitate to speak?
Did he suspect that Joam Garral would only reply to his demands by a scornful silence?
Yes! Probably so.

So Torres did not question him.

At the outset of the conversation he took the affirmative, and assumed the part of an accuser.
"Joam," he said, "your name is not Garral.