My estate was a modest one.

On that foundation this fellow has been building a larger fortune--but fate has overtaken him at last.

There are still friends of mine alive who will help me to unmask this scoundrel and prove him Paulo Rabasco.

He never would have been known, had I not, after many years, escaped from Yucatan.

I did not dare proclaim myself at once, for fear of being arrested as Paulo Rabasco and sent back to Yucatan.