"It's curious, but I think I have met him."
Gomez gave her a searching glance and then smiled.
"He is not worth remembering, but you did meet him at Havana."
"Ah!" said Evelyn sharply.
Gomez laughed.
"Must I remind you, señorita, of a little affair at the Hotel International?"
Evelyn remembered it well and guessed that it was Sarmiento whom Gomez had been pursuing when she stopped him by dropping her ring. She could now understand his look of baffled rage, and she recalled her shrinking from the savagery it displayed.
"One imagines that you did not know Don Martin," Gomez said lightly, although there was a keen look in his narrowed eyes.
"No," Evelyn answered; "I only saw him at dinner."
"Then perhaps you have heard your father speak of him?"