There was revealed the thin, aquiline face of a man dressed in rather dandified clothing.

There were rings on both hands, a rather showy but valuable stickpin in the scarf.

The hands were not those of a laboring man.

At the bridge of the nose a faint depression showed that he wore eyeglasses.

His complexion was blond, and his eyes, open now only to a slit, might also have been light in color.