But, convinced that Priam was an impostor, he sarcastically proceeded-- "Perhaps, if I am not asking too much, you will take your collar off and show the two moles to the court ?" "No," said Priam stoutly.

And for the first time he looked Pennington in the face.
"You would prefer to do it, perhaps, in his lordship's room, if his lordship consents." "I won't do it anywhere," said Priam.
"But surely--" the judge began.
"I won't do it anywhere, my lord," Priam repeated loudly.

All his resentment surged up once more; and particularly his resentment against the little army of experts who had pronounced his pictures to be clever but worthless imitations of himself.

If his pictures, admittedly painted after his supposed death, could not prove his identity; if his word was to be flouted by insulting and bewigged beasts of prey; then his moles should not prove his identity.

He resolved upon obstinacy.
"The witness, gentlemen," said Pennington, K.C., in triumph to the jury, "has two moles on his neck, exactly as described by Mr.Duncan Farll, but he will not display them!" Eleven legal minds bent nobly to the problem whether the law and justice of England could compel a free man to take his collar off if he refused to take his collar off.