"And some no account ones, too," he added, as his foreman dismounted beside him.
Then, while the young man slipped the bridle from his horse and stood waiting for the animal to drink, the older man regarded him silently, as though in his own mind the Dean's observation bore somewhat upon Phil himself.

That was always the way with the Dean.

As Sheriff Fellows once remarked to Judge Powell in the old days of the cattle rustlers' glory, "Whatever Bill Baldwin says is mighty nigh always double-barreled." There are also two sides to the Dean.

Or, rather, to be accurate, there is a front and a back.

The back--flat and straight and broad--indicates one side of his character--the side that belongs with the square chin and the blue eyes that always look at you with such frank directness.