His face, clean-shaved, except a "Bowery-b'hoy" goatee, was white, fat, and selfishly sensual.

Small, pig-like eyes, set close together, glanced around continually.

His legs were short, his body long, and made to appear longer, by his wearing no vest--a custom common them with Southerners.
His faculties were at that moment absorbed in seeing that no person concealed any money from him.

His subordinates did not search closely enough to suit him, and he would run his fat, heavily-ringed fingers through the prisoner's hair, feel under their arms and elsewhere where he thought a stray five dollar greenback might be concealed.

But with all his greedy care he was no match for Yankee cunning.