The lower part of his face, without beard or whiskers, was in no way remarkable.

An average observer would have passed him by without notice but for his eyes.

These alone made a marked man of him.

The unusual size of the orbits in which they were set was enough of itself to attract attention; it gave a grandeur to his head, which the head, broad and firm as it was, did not possess.

As to the eyes themselves, the soft, lustrous brightness of them defied analysis No two people could agree about their color; divided opinion declaring alternately that they were dark gray or black.