"I'd forgotten.

But that explains everything." "Everything." It was not uttered interrogatively; rather as though Ah Cum did not like the significance of the word and was turning it over and about in speculation.
"Ye-ah," said O'Higgins, jovially.

"Why you pretended not to recognize the photograph of the young fellow you toted around these diggings all day yesterday." Many wrinkles appeared at the corners of Ah Cum's slant eyes--as if the sun hurt--but the rest of his face remained as passive as a graven Buddha's..