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That the years had changed Cabell Flanagan saw at a glance when he got tired of showing his power from a distance and, like the great man he was, sent in a lordly manner for the beggar at his gates.
Cabell, as he entered the luxurious room, the like of which he had not been in for many, many years, saw only Flanagan's triumphant smile, though there was a look of doubt in his eyes, too, as they took in Cabell's hard face, with its rapacious beak of a nose, its indrawn lips, its cold eyes, bespeaking a man of obstinate, passionate, perhaps dangerous, will. A different man from the panic-stricken youth of Murrumburra or the irresolute one he had encountered in Pat Dennis's pub later on. A man it would be well to handle carefully.