He turned upon the leader, the one who had given the warning and who looked the admixture of all that was Mediterranean and Semitic.
"What's _your_ name ?" "Bert Rhine.

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sir," was the reply, in tones as soft and careless and silkily irritating as the other's.
"And _you_ ?"--this to the remaining one, the youngest of the trio, a dark- eyed, olive-skinned fellow with a face most striking in its cameo-like beauty.

American-born, I placed him, of immigrants from Southern Italy--from Naples, or even Sicily.
"Twist.