Hale was slender, tall, and dark in color, with a nose like the beak of an eagle.

He was perfectly dressed and had even an elegant appearance.

His age might have been forty, but in the artificial light he looked even younger.

Clancy, on the other hand, wore his clothes with the air of a man unaccustomed to evening dress.

He was light in color, with weak blue eyes and a foolish expression about his slack mouth.