This man was the prisoner.

He came in under guard, but he bore himself quietly enough and made a low bow to the governor.

He was not an ill-favoured fellow.

His eye was steely cold, but his face was hearty and round, and remarkably free from viciousness.

He had a cheerful air and an alert freedom of manner, which suggested good-fellowship and honest enterprise.
Where his left hand had been was an iron hook, but not obtrusively in view, nor did it give any marked grimness to his appearance.