“I can prove it. I am Frank Merriwell, well known in New Haven, where I have been at college. This is my friend Bart Hodge, who will tell you whatever you wish to know about me.”
“But I know not’ing of him. Dat be no proof. Have you de word?”
“The word?”
“Dat’s what I ask.”
Frank was forced to confess that he did not know what Juan Delores meant by “the word.”
“Den you be not Frank Merriwell!” positively declared the man.
“I do not know what you mean by ‘the word.’” Merry said, “but I assure you that you are wrong about me not being Frank Merriwell.”
“He would come with da word.”
“Then you have been expecting him?”
“I no say so.”