"You have got here a notorious brigand, as I have heard tell," said the visitor.
"We have, sir," was the governor's reply; "a very remarkable man he is, too."
"Ah, so I have heard," said the visitor. "He is called Demetrius, I believe?"
"Nay; his name is Mathias."
The visitor looked surprised at this information.
"Mathias—Mathias!" he repeated to himself. "I was misinformed, then. I certainly thought that his name was Demetrius."
The governor smiled.
"You may be right, all the same," said he.
"How so?"
"Why, Mathias is but his avowed name; he may be known by a dozen different aliases."