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The stranger was dressed in a summer suit of grey flannel, and dangled a broad-brimmed Panama hat in his hand. Nothing indicated that he had observed their little group.
Mrs. Moor tapped her heel smartly on the floor. He at once looked round, but with perfect self-possession. He was a shortish, heavily- built man, perhaps fifty years of age, having a full, florid face, a dome-like forehead, and a neck short, thick and red--an energetic, intellectual type of person, probably capable of prolonged periods of heavy mental exertion. His head was bald to the crown, the remaining fair was sandy-red and he wore a short, pointed beard of the same colour. His somewhat large, flat,pale blue-grey eyes had that peculiar look of fixity which comes from gazing at one set of objects and thinking of something totally different.