9/19 You'll never recognize him." "Oh, I think so," said the Peruvian smoothly. "His eyes were peculiarly blue and full of light. Also, he had a scar on the right temple from a blow which he received in a street riot in which I also was concerned. With all these marks, and with my memory for faces, which never yet has failed me, I have no doubt but what I shall recognize the man." "And then ?" "And then I shall have him arrested" Hope shrugged his square shoulders. He had not much belief in Don Pedro's boasted royal memory, and did not think that he would recognize a young sailor of twenty in what would certainly be a grizzled old salt of fifty years. |