The light striking upward through the green shade gave to Kenyon's face an extraordinary pallor.

But it seemed to Chayne that not all the pallor was due to the lamp.
"For six seasons," Chayne said, "Gabriel Strood came to the Alps.

In his first season he made a great name." "He was the best climber I have ever seen," replied Kenyon.
"He had a passion for the mountains.

Yet after six years he came back no more.

He disappeared.