"It is. Did you ask Mr. Scott the name of the man with whom he dined last evening."
"Yes."
"It was——"
"Alvarez Lazaro."
"I thought it!"
"Why, how did you know any——"
"The white-haired man you met here is Alvarez Lazaro."
"No?"
"And this Lazaro has boldly informed me that he was once the bosom friend of Porfias del Norte and is now his avenger."
"What's that?" gasped Hatch. "Why, what does he propose to do?"