Publisher's Synopsis
His stature did not show him to be more than fourteen, or possibly fifteen years of age, but his face, with its firm lines around the mouth, and the thoughtful expression upon its regular features, told of at least another year on the credit side of experience in the varying fortunes of a checkered life. In fact, were we to reckon his existence from the parts he had acted in the rough side of knocking about the world, we should find that he was older than many are at two score.
