There existed--might Mateo point out--a doubt.
Ezekiel regarded Mateo with a certain grim appreciation.

"Wa'al, is there anybody here who looks like Johnson ?" Again there were the difficulty of ascertaining perfectly how the Senor Johnson looked.

If the Senor Johnson was Americano, doubtless there were other Americanos who had resembled him.

It was possible.

The Senor Corwin had doubtless observed for a little space a caballero who was here, as it were, in the instant of the appearance of Senor Johnson?
Possibly there was a resemblance, and yet-- Corwin had certainly noticed this resemblance, but it did not suit his cautious intellect to fall in with any prevailing scepticism of his host.