He might lead a raiding party for all that; but he was a bit pompous and very self-conscious.

Tom was rather gratified to see him hailed aside.
Nothing.
Down they came, holding both rails and lifting their feet to swing, like school boys--hundreds of them, thousands of them, it seemed.

Tom watched them all keenly as they passed out like an endless ribbon from a magician's hat.

There seemed to be no end of them.
There came now a fellow whom he watched closely.

He had blond hair and blue eyes, but no glasses.