I--I asked him if he had seen anything of the plan and he won't answer.

I was just going to put him under arrest as--as a suspicious person when you came." Major Grover turned and inspected Jed, and Jed, for his part, inspected the major.

He saw a well set-up man of perhaps thirty- five, dark-haired, brown-eyed and with a closely clipped mustache above a pleasant mouth and a firm chin.

The inspection lasted a minute or more.

Then the major said: "So you're a suspicious character, are you ?" Jed's hand moved across his chin in the gesture habitual with him.
"I never knew it afore," he drawled.