Unlike most men I was accustomed to about me, he was smooth-shaven.

Several days' growth of beard showed that he was already well-grayed.

His mouth was unusually wide, with thin lips tightly compressed as if he had lost many of his front teeth.

His nose was large, square, and thick.

So was his face square, wide between the cheekbones, underhung with massive jaws, and topped with a broad, intelligent forehead.