Also, I dropped my cigarette case and forced you to pick it up, so that, when you stretched your arm, I might see what mark was on your left wrist.

It is a serpent encircling the sun, which Lola Farjados induced you to have tattooed when you were in Lima thirty years ago.

Your eyes are blue and full of light, and as you were twenty when I knew you, the lapse of years has made you fifty--your present age." "Shucks!" said Hervey coolly, and sat down to smoke.
Don Pedro turned to Archie and Braddock.
"Mr.Hope! Professor!" he remarked, "if you remember the description I gave of Gustav Vasa, I appeal to you to see if it does not exactly fit this man ?" "It does," said Archie unhesitatingly, "although I cannot see the tattooed left wrist to which you refer." Hervey, still smoking, made no offer to show the symbol, but Braddock unexpectedly came to the assistance of Don Pedro.
"The man is Vasa right enough," he remarked abruptly.

"Whether he is Swedish or American I cannot say.

But he is the same man I met when I was in Lima thirty years ago, after the war." Hervey slowly turned his blue eyes on the scientist with a twinkle in their depths.
"So you recognized me ?" he observed, with his Yankee drawl.
"I recognized you at the moment I hired you to take The Diver to Malta to bring back that mummy," retorted Braddock, "but it didn't suit my book to let on.