"Oh, you may have been mistaken in that—surely you may."
"I was not."
"How do you know?"
"By a mark on the finger."
"Ah! what sort of a mark?"
"A peculiar scar like a triangle, situated between the first and second joints. Besides that, the nail had once been crushed, after which it was never perfect."
"That was quite enough," nodded Professor Scotch.
"Yah," agreed Hans; "dot peen quide enough alretty."
Still Frank was silent, watching and waiting, missing not a word that fell from the man's lips, missing not a gesture, failing to note no move.
This silence on the part of Merriwell seemed to affect the man, who turned to him, saying, a trifle sharply: