The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-17
CHAPTER VII.

MY FIRST MEETING WITH JAMES MULLEN.
And now it is high time that told
the reader something more about the
circumstances under which | had seen
James Mullen and why was so posi-
tive that he and the man in whose com
pany ! had Travelled down to Southend
were one and the same person.
Firstly, it must be remembered that
sat opposite to my travelling compan-
ion for more than an hour, during which
time had watched him narrowly, and,
secondly, that there are some faces
which, once seen, one never forgets.
Such face was the face of the man had
seen on that eventful journey. His eyes
were bright, prominent and had heavy
lids. His complexion was clear ana pale,
and his nose was well shaped, though
a little too pronouncedly aquiline. The
nostrils were very unusual, being thin
and pinched, but arching upward So
curiously that one might almost fancy
part OF the dilatablo cuticle on each
side had been cut away. The finely
nodded cAin was like the upper lip and
cheek, clean shaver, and the lips were
full and voluptuous Thick but fine and
straight straw colored hair was careful
~ brushed over well formed forehead.
and the face, taken altogether, was de-
cidedly distinguished if not aristocrat.
&c IN the firmness of outline and the
shaping of the features.
After the train had started Mullen
sank back into his seat and appeared to
be thinking intently. I noticed that his
eyes were never still a moment. but
darted restlessly from object to object
III way which seemed to indicate great
brain excitability. That he was excita.
BILE was clear from his vehement out.
burst about the fusee, but almost the
next minute he had, so to speak, made
amends for his apparent rudeness by ex.
planning that he was peculiarly sensitive
TO smell and had an especial dislike to
fusees.
Nevertheless the sudden change in
the expression of his face at the moment
OF the outbreak was remarkable. The
previously smooth and unpuckered
prows gathered themselves together into
two diagonal wrinkles that met above
the nose, which had in the meantime
become beaklike, and the effect recalled
In some curious way bird of prey. He
was soon all smiles again, but once or
Twice throughout the journey, when his
thoughts were presumably unpleasant. /
caught the same expression, and it was
the TACT OF my seeing in the photovraph
TINS same unmistakable expression on
the face OF a man who was apparently
a Inherent person which had set me
fumbling with such uncertain hand
among the dog cared pages of the past
Inc eyes, the hawklike wrinklinQ of
the brows and the nose and nostrils
were of course the same, but the addi.
ton OF the beard, the evident swartbi.
ness OF the skin, and the darkeninp of
the hair led to my failing at first to
connect the portrait with my fellow
passenger to Southend. But the missing
link was no sooner found and the con.
nection established than felt that the
Identity OF Mullen with the man / had
seen In the train admitted of no uncer-
tainty, especially as, after examining
under powerful lens the photograph
which the informer had given to the
police. satisfied myself that the beard
was false.