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The Green Mummy

CHAPTER XV
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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.
Finally, gentlemen, Vasa loved a peon girl on my father's estate, and she induced him to have the sun encircled by a serpent--a Peruvian symbol--tattooed on his left wrist.

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.


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